How Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?

Mann, Kevin; Clandinin, Thomas R · Cell · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Classifying sensory experiences as either novel or familiar represents a fundamental challenge to neural processing. In this issue of Cell, Hattori et al. describe a circuit mechanism by which a novel stimulus that initially interests a fruit fly turns into a familiar one.

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