Decision-making in drosophila with two conflicting cues

  • Authors:
  • Kuijie Cai;Jihong Shen;Si Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China and College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China;College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China;Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

  • Venue:
  • ISNN'11 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Advances in neural networks - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Experimental data has revealed that the decision behavior of Drosophila is almost linear when facing a single cue. However, when two conflicting cues are presented, the decision behavior of Drosophila becomes winner-takes-all. We propose a connectionist model to elucidate the underlying computational mechanism.We consider two neural states, representing different action choices, compete with each other through mutual inhibition. They receive inputs from Mushroom Body when conflicting information arise. The role of Mushroom Body is to average out temporal noises in external inputs, so that subtle differences between two conflicting cues can be identified, leading to higher discrimination accuracies. Our model successfully describes the experimental findings.