The mushroom bodies in the insect brain serve as a central information processing area. Here, focusing mainly on olfaction, I discuss functionally related roles the mushroom bodies play in signal gain control, response sparsening, the separation of similar signals (decorrelation), and learning and memory. In sum, the mushroom bodies assemble and format a context-appropriate representation of the insect's world.

中文翻译：

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在蘑菇体内进行集中处理。

昆虫大脑中的蘑菇体是中央信息处理区域。在这里，我主要关注嗅觉，讨论蘑菇体在信号增益控制，响应稀疏，相似信号的分离（去相关）以及学习和记忆中所发挥的功能相关作用。总而言之，蘑菇体组装并形成了与昆虫世界相适应的背景图像。