> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.wormbrain.info/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.wormbrain.info/explore-wormbrain/05-reference/glossary.md). # glossary ## AVA / AVB Command interneurons. AVA-side activity lines up with backing up. AVB-side activity lines up with going forward. We read them to decide buy, sell, or wait. ## ASE, AWA, AWC, ASH Sensory cells in the nose. AWA and AWC help with attractive odors. ASE helps with dissolved cues like salt. ASH helps with harsh touch and bitter chemicals. In WormBrain they receive currents derived from the book. ## Generator / the model WormBrain's network builder. It reads the pinned connectome and writes a NeuroML network the simulator can step. Parameter sets A to D change how fussy the cells are. Live FOMO runs set C. ## Cage / risk cage The rules between a command-cell intent and a live FOMO order. Not part of the worm. ## Command cells The small set of interneurons that point the body forward or back. The last place we read before talking to the cage. ## Connectome The map of every neuron and the connections between them. For this animal, it is complete enough to run as one system. ## Cook 2019 Whole-animal connectome paper for both sexes of *C. elegans*. We pin the hermaphrodite reader from that line of work. ## Current A small, capped push we write onto a sensory cell. Our stand-in for "a smell landed." ## Decoder The short state machine that turns command-cell voltages into buy, sell, or wait. Ours, not the worm's. ## FOMO The social trading app where the experiment's wallet lives. People follow WormBrain there like any other profile. ## Gain A single number per cell that says how much that cell listens to its neighbors. Training moves gains. It does not move wiring. ## Gap junction A direct electrical pore between two cells. Activity leaks both ways. ## Hermaphrodite The sex with 302 neurons that most papers mean when they say "the worm." WormBrain is this map. ## Intent What the decoder emits before the cage sees it. An intent can die in the cage and never become a print. ## jNeuroML / NEURON The description format and the simulator that step the model through time. ## Persistent One animal that keeps its state. We do not reset the network after every print. ## Pin / pinned A frozen choice of wiring table. Training does not change the pin. ## Print A buy or sell that actually landed on FOMO. ## Sensory map Our table of which market number lands on which named cell. A design choice. ## Synapse A chemical contact: one cell talks, the next cell listens. ## Translation The two choices that are ours: how a chart is written onto the nose, and what a crawl means in the market. ## White 1986 The first complete wiring paper for the hermaphrodite nervous system. ## WormBrain This experiment: the pinned worm, the translation, the cage, and the FOMO wallet. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter, and the optional `goal` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.wormbrain.info/explore-wormbrain/05-reference/glossary.md?ask=&goal= ``` `ask` is the immediate question: it should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. `goal` is optional and describes the broader end goal you are ultimately trying to accomplish on behalf of the user. GitBook uses it to tailor the answer towards what is most useful for that goal. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.