Aurel A. Lazar
@aalazar.bsky.social
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.
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NeuroGraphBench: Interacting with Drosophila Connectomes at Scale for Exploring the Functional Logic of Neural Circuits
Drosophila connectomic datasets provide increasingly comprehensive maps of neuronal morphology and synaptic connectivity, offering an unprecedented opportunity to explore the structural organization o...
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Are you a #neuroscientist or #AI researcher with an interest in the nature of intelligence? Join us in Bristol for a residential scientific meeting examining how intelligence emerges in biological systems: royalsociety.org/science-even... @maboudi.bsky.social @minibraincognition.bsky.social
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...
🪰 Why Houseflies See Faster Than AI - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦
📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/archive?sort=newThrough self-motion, flies efficiently translate image motion into temporally-precise, predictive high-speed vision.The humble, infuriating, ...
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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: lnkd.in/eGDAux-M #AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience
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...
Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour - Nature Communications
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...
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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
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Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour
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 ...
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