Dennis Goldschmidt

This study shows that losing olfaction in Drosophila enhances visual learning through structural and functional changes in neural circuits.

This study investigates how flies balance exploration and exploitation during local search, finding that satiety drives a shift from exploiting to exploring, while optogenetic activation does not.

This study identifies a neuronal population in Drosophila that integrates nutritional state and food patch density to regulate foraging decisions.

The paper investigates how internal states modulate sensorimotor processing to shape food choice in Drosophila by analyzing neuronal activity and identifying a region that directs preference for protein-rich food.

The paper develops and validates optoPAD, a closed-loop optogenetics system to study how taste neurons influence feeding behavior in flies.

This paper presents a computational model of neural mechanisms for reward-modulated vector learning and navigation in embodied agents, linking behavioral observations to potential neural substrates.