ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2018
Building a heading signal from anatomically defined neuron types in the Drosophila central complex.
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- Emergent spatial goals in an integrative model of the insect central complex.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Neural representation of goal direction in the monarch butterfly brain.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Optic flow based spatial vision in insects.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- A model of cue integration as vector summation in the insect brain.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Integration of optic flow into the sky compass network in the brain of the desert locust.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- Performance of polarization-sensitive neurons of the locust central complex at different degrees of polarization.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- Receptive field structures for two celestial compass cues at the input stage of the central complex in the locust brain.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
A network of a few hundred neurons in the Drosophila central complex carries an estimate of the fly's heading in the world, akin to the mammalian head-direction system. Here we describe how anatomically defined neuronal classes in this network are poised to implement specific sub-processes for building and updating this population-level heading signal. The computations we describe in the fly central complex strongly resemble those posited to exist in the mammalian brain, in computational models for building head-direction signals. By linking circuit anatomy to navigational physiology, the Drosophila central complex should provide a detailed example of how a heading signal is built.
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