In a recent SWC seminar, Professor Joseph LeDoux proposed a new framework for characterising our existence, made up of four different realms – biological, neurobiological, cognitive and conscious. In this Q&A, he explains how the four realms relate to each other and the implications for neuroscience and the higher-order theory of consciousness.

How does the brain integrate sensory information from different modalities during learning and in what way does this relate to memory performance? In this Q&A, SWC Emerging Neuroscientist Seminar Series (ENSS) speaker Dr Zeynep Okray and her research colleague Dr Pedro Jacob, explain their research in fruit flies to tackle these big research questions.