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Drosophila, with a tiny brain, can accomplish many goal-directed behaviors, which might shed the light of intelligence. We reviewed our exploratory trip in the recent years concerning the neural circuitry mechanism of decision-making in Drosophila, and proposed a general Gating and Gain Rule in central nervous processing of cognitive function, based on our neurogenetics studies and the functional connectivity mapping of mushroom bodies (MB) which has been believed to be a center of ‘free will’ in fly’s brain. We provide a Tai-ji model to reflect the balance of regulation in MB, and assigned dopaminergic and GABAergic systems as the two antagonistical parts.
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This work is supported by ‘973 Program’ (Major State Basic Research Program) (2011CBA00400 to A.G.), the NSFC (Grants 30921064, 31130027 to A.G.) and XDB02040100 of CAS to A.G.
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Guo, A., Zhang, K., Ren, Q.Z., Su, H.F., Chen, N.N. (2016). Functional Connectivity Mapping of Decision-Making in Drosophila Melanogaster. In: Wang, R., Pan, X. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_6
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