Deconstructing collective cognition in Drosophila: neurobehavioural mechanisms of social and asocial learning

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The genetic architecture of social and asocial learning in Drosophila melanogaster

Publication . Simões-Henriques, Carla; De Oliveira, Rui Filipe Nunes Pais; Varela, Susana

"In an ever-changing environment, asocial and social information coexist, and animals need learning abilities to take advantage of both types of information and make informed decisions that increase their Darwinian fitness. Social information is less costly in most functional domains, updates faster, and is more prone to yield more adaptive outcomes in unexperienced animals. Asocial learning, on the other hand, informs the individual about its own preferences, limitations and adaptations, more prone to yield adaptive outcomes in experienced animals. So, asocial and social learning are different at the behavioural ecology level. But whether they rely on a shared domain-general genetic modules or on independent domain-specific genetic modules remains elusive(...)"

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

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Concurso para Financiamento de Projetos de Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico em Todos os Domínios Científicos - 2020

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PTDC/BIA-COM/6124/2020