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KC → MBON · depression, not potentiation LITE

Mushroom body

Subtraction is the rule.

A Kenyon cell active shortly before dopamine has that KC→MBON synapse depressed. Learning in a fly carves away responses that did not pay. Twenty rewarded encounters with one view: reward-side −6.0%, punishment-side −0.9% (flycoinrh measurement).

Reward-side · MBON01 02 03 · PAM

0.0%
mean gain 1.000

Punishment-side · MBON04 10 11 · PPL1

0.0%
mean gain 1.000
Kenyon cells · eligibility for this view

The reward signal is not real. Novelty standing in for sugar is a modelling choice — the fly has no say in it.

No potentiation. Floor 0.25, slow drift back toward 1.0 (forgetting). Private preview. After flycoinrh mushroom.py.