Focus on the molecular architecture and functional logic of the Drosophila brain, building interactive computing tools for the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, computing w/ fruit fly brain circuits, creating neuroinformation processing machines.
Aurel A. Lazar
Flies vision is tightly intertwined with action, using motion itself to sharpen perception and speed up neural processing. Understanding how biology achieves predictive, low‑delay sensing could inspire new approaches in artificial vision and neuromorphic engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am very pleased to announce our upcoming Theo Murphy meeting at the Royal Society:
Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence
21–22 September 2026 - Bristol, UK
Registration deadline: 1 July
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How insects maintain precise vision during rapid motion remains unclear. Here, the authors show that motion-driven photoreceptor dynamics and synaptic high-frequency jumping enable hyperacute, minimal...
Heliox has made a podcast episode about our latest paper on how houseflies see and react so fast.
It gives a nice, accessible overview of synaptic high-frequency jumping and why fly vision can outperform conventional expectations for biological neural systems.
🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
Beyond Static Perception: Animals, Neurons and Synapses Move to Compute Efficiently: neuro info processing, beyond electrochemical signaling, is dynamically shaped by motion across bio scales, from morphodynamic ultrastructural changes to whole-body movements doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.1093.v1
The ability to make the world of odorants intelligible is a key capability of the Drosophila olfactory system that we shall call olfactory intelligence. We argue that olfactory intelligence does not o...
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YouTube video by Centre for Cognition in Small Brains
During high-speed behaviour, animals must predict, detect, process, and respond synchronously to rapid environmental changes, including those caused by their own movements. How neural systems achieve ...
