CONNECTOME-INSPIRED · INTERACTIVE MODEL
Can a circuit
learn an association?
Pair an odor with a good or bad outcome. Then test what the modeled mushroom-body circuit remembers, forgets, or learns to expect instead.
01 — EXPERIMENT
Teach an association
Choose a cue and outcome, then present them together. The dopamine-like teaching signal changes the model’s cue-to-output synapses.
The circuit is ready. Try pairing citrus with sugar.
02 — CIRCUIT MODEL
A memory-shaped pathway
Odor cues activate sparse Kenyon-cell patterns. Dopamine neurons teach mushroom-body output pathways; their weights carry the model’s learned association.
cue activity learned strength teaching signal
Model choiceReward-modulated plasticity is an explicit approximation, not a mechanism recovered from the wiring diagram.
03 — MEMORY TEST
What does it expect?
Recall presents each cue alone—no sugar or bitter outcome. Values show the model’s predicted approach-versus-avoid signal.
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