The mushroom body – the learning and memory region in the brains of arthropods – is responsible for the ability of insects to make abstract behavioural decisions, which are then carried out by downstream motor networks. That is the result of a study conducted by Professor Dr Martin Paul Nawrot and Dr Cansu Arican from the 'Computational Systems Neuroscience' working group at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology. The research was reported in Current Biology under the title 'The mushroom body output encodes behavioural decision during sensory-motor transformation'.

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