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Flies Get Fright from False Memories Friday, October 16, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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The seemingly complex phenomenon by which fruit flies (Drosophila) learn from bad experiences has been reduced to the actions of a mere 12 neurons, according to research by a team of UK- and US-based scientists. Manipulating this cluster of cells with a laser, the scientists were able to trick the flies into having associative memories of events they had not actually experienced. (source: nature.com)
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