We develop and use novel experimental and theoretical techniques and original ideas to study cognition and information processing in neural circuits: https://cognition.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/home
Small Brain Cognition Lab
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Vision is often modelled with tuned filters, noise and fixed bandwidth limits. But speed, dynamic range and hyperacuity need not be assumed.
See how they emerge from real biophysics: quantal sampling, refractory dynamics, cellular motion and synaptic high-frequency jumping.
Supplementary Video 3:
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New paper out today!
Insect eyes do not just record images - they actively sample the world in rapid bursts. We show that this drives synaptic high-frequency jumping, reshaping visual signals to boost speed, timing and hyperacute vision during flight.
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Updated version of our manuscript now available on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
We show how synaptic high-frequency jumping and morphodynamic sampling synchronise vision to high-speed behaviour in the housefly, extending visual bandwidth to ~1,000 Hz while minimising synaptic delays.
Delighted to share our new review preprint:
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Beyond Static Perception - showing how animals, neurons and synapses actively move to sample and compute information efficiently.
ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop
Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence
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4-5 September 2025: Extraordinary meeting - many thanks to HaDi for organising, and to all the speakers and participants! See you all next year in Bristol!
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...
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬🧠
We are currently advertising a PhD project to study how the brains of #Drosophila and #zebrafish synchronise visual information processing.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
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
Register here:
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#AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience
New paper by our group! 🧪🐝 Confirmation of the spread of "behavioural traditions" in groups - and between groups! - of bumblebees, using the string-pulling paradigm! With @procenko.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social and @minibraincognition.bsky.social .
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Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
Small Brain Cognition Lab
YouTube video by Centre for Cognition in Small Brains
