The hemibrain connectome provides large-scale connectivity and morphology information
for the majority of the central brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Using this data set, we …

Efficient information coding (EIC) is a universal biological framework rooted in the
fundamental principle that system responses should match their natural stimulus statistics for …

Imagine smelling a novel perfume with only one nostril and then smelling it again with the
other nostril. Clearly, you can tell that it is the same perfume both times. This simple …

To identify and memorize discrete but similar environmental inputs, the brain needs to
distinguish between subtle differences of activity patterns in defined neuronal populations …

Background For many animals, chemosensory cues are vital for social and defensive
interactions and are primarily detected and processed by the vomeronasal system (VNS) …

Continual learning in computational systems is challenging due to catastrophic forgetting.
We discovered a two layer neural circuit in the fruit fly olfactory system that addresses this …

The pheromone system of heliothine moths is an optimal model for studying principles
underlying higher-order olfactory processing. In Helicoverpa armigera, three male-specific …

Animals recognize groups and mixtures of odors as a unitary object. This ability is crucial to
generalize known odors to newly encountered ones despite variations. However, it remains …

Neural network function requires an appropriate balance of excitation and inhibition to be
maintained by homeostatic plasticity. However, little is known about homeostatic …

Animals are capable of recognizing mixtures and groups of odors as a unitary object.
However, how odor object representations are generated in the brain remains elusive. Here …