Seminar · Behavioral Neuroscience
Reward foraging task, and model-based analysis reveal how fruit flies learn the value of available options
Duda Kvitsiani · Aarhus University
Wed, Jul 29, 2020 · 13:30 UTC
Understanding what drives foraging decisions in animals requires careful manipulation of the value of available options while monitoring animal choices. Value-based decision-making tasks, in combination with formal learning models, have provided both an experimental and theoretical framework to study foraging decisions in lab settings. While these approaches were successfully used in the past to understand what drives choices in mammals, very little work has been done on fruit flies. This is even though fruit flies have served as a model organism for many complex behavioural paradigms. To fill