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Seeing smells: imaging olfactory learning in bees

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Using calcium imaging as bees learn to associate odors with a reward, Faber and colleagues show that learning changes activity patterns at the earliest olfactory site in the brain.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the insect central olfactory pathway (modified from ref. 15).
Figure 2: Odorant–evoked activity, visualized with calcium dye and superimposed onto the glomeruli of the bee antennal lobe.

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