The arthropod mushroom body is well-studied as an expansion layer representing olfactory
stimuli and linking them to contingent events. However, 8% of mushroom body Kenyon cells …

Insects use the sun's position (even when concealed) as a compass for navigation by
filtering celestial light intensity and polarisation through their compound eyes. To replicate …

Flying insects exhibit remarkable navigational abilities controlled by their compact nervous
systems. Optic flow, the pattern of changes in the visual scene induced by locomotion, is a …

Many animals rely on vision to navigate through their environment. The pattern of changes
in the visual scene induced by self-motion is the optic flow, which is first estimated in local …

The circadian clock of animals regulates various physiological and behavioral processes in
anticipation of, and adaptation to, daily environmental fluctuations. Consequently, the …

Many insects utilise the polarisation pattern of the sky to adjust their travelling directions. The
extraction of directional information from this sky-wide cue is mediated by specialised …

Many animals, including humans, navigate their surroundings by visual input, yet we
understand little about how visual information is transformed and integrated by the …

A goal of modern neuroscience involves understanding how connections in the brain form
and function. Such a knowledge is essential to inform how defects in the exquisite …

Techniques that enable precise manipulations of subsets of neurons in the fly central
nervous system have greatly facilitated our understanding of the neural basis of behavior …

A pattern of two equally bright colours contains only chromatic contrast. Unlike in flies, such
a pattern elicits strong optokinetic responses in the butterfly Papilio xuthus. To investigate …