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ArticleNeuron2019

Convergent Temperature Representations in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks.

Martin Haesemeyer, Alexander F Schier, Florian Engert

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Article in Neuron, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Dissecting Larval Zebrafish Hunting using Deep Reinforcement Learning Trained RNN Agents.Proceedings of the ... Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience · 2026
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  12. Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martin HaesemeyerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: haesemeyer@fas.harvard.edu.
Alexander F SchierDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Florian EngertDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: florian@mcb.harvard.edu.

Funding

Zooming into the fish's brain-What is really going on! Connectomics analysis of larval zebrafish.U19NS104653 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI Florian Engert · 2017 to 2026
$39.4M
DNA-mediated recording of cellular historyDP1HD094764 · NICHD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI SCHIER, ALEXANDER F · 2017 to 2019
$3.5M
Transgenic zebrafish for neurobiologyR24NS086601 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.2M
NICHD NIH HHS DP1 HD094764NINDS NIH HHS R24 NS086601NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discoveries in biological neural networks (BNNs) shaped artificial neural networks (ANNs) and computational parallels between ANNs and BNNs have recently been discovered. However, it is unclear to what extent discoveries in ANNs can give insight into BNN function. Here, we designed and trained an ANN to perform heat gradient navigation and found striking similarities in computation and heat representation to a known zebrafish BNN. This included shared ON- and OFF-type representations of absolute temperature and rates of change. Importantly, ANN function critically relied on zebrafish-like units. We furthermore used the accessibility of the ANN to discover a new temperature-responsive cell type in the zebrafish cerebellum. Finally, constraining the ANN by the C. elegans motor repertoire retuned sensory representations indicating that our approach generalizes. Together, these results emphasize convergence of ANNs and BNNs on stereotypical representations and that ANNs form a powerful tool to understand their biological counterparts.

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Hot TemperatureNeural Networks, ComputerAnimalsBrainCaenorhabditis elegansCerebellumNerve NetReinforcement, PsychologySpatial NavigationSupervised Machine LearningThermosensingZebrafishartificial neural networkC. eleganscomparative computationcomputationrepresentationthermosensationzebrafish

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PMID31376984
PMCPMC6763370

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