https://mayalucia.dev/tags/mushroom-body/ Recent content in Mushroom-Body on MayaLucIA Hugo -- 0.156.0 en-us Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://mayalucia.dev/domains/bravli/mushroom-body/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://mayalucia.dev/domains/bravli/mushroom-body/ <p>The mushroom body (MB) is the fly&rsquo;s learning and memory center &mdash; a microcircuit of ~6,300 neurons that transforms dense olfactory input into sparse, associative representations. It is the first circuit explored end-to-end in BRAVLi, and the subject of a research manuscript.</p> <h2 id="lessons-covered">Lessons Covered</h2> <h3 id="lesson-05--explore-the-mushroom-body">Lesson 05 &mdash; Explore the Mushroom Body</h3> <p>Integration: complete factsheet and visualisation of the MB. Kenyon cells (KC), projection neurons (PN), dopaminergic neurons (DAN), and mushroom body output neurons (MBON) &mdash; populations, connectivity, and spatial arrangement.</p>