Neural circuits for goal-directed navigation across species

J Basu, K Nagel - Trends in Neurosciences, 2024 - cell.com
Across species, navigation is crucial for finding both resources and shelter. In vertebrates,
the hippocampus supports memory-guided goal-directed navigation, whereas in arthropods …

Inductive biases of neural network modularity in spatial navigation

R Zhang, X Pitkow, DE Angelaki - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The brain may have evolved a modular architecture for daily tasks, with circuits featuring
functionally specialized modules that match the task structure. We hypothesize that this …

Odor-based molecular communications: State-of-the-art, vision, challenges, and frontier directions

D Aktas, BE Ortlek, M Civas, E Baradari… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humankind mimics the processes and strategies that nature has perfected and uses them as
a model to address its problems. This has led to a new communication technology …

Resha** the discovery of self-assembling peptides with generative AI guided by hybrid deep learning

M Njirjak, L Žužić, M Babić, P Janković… - Nature machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Supramolecular peptide-based materials have great potential for revolutionizing fields like
nanotechnology and medicine. However, deciphering the intricate sequence-to-assembly …

Emergence of belief-like representations through reinforcement learning

JA Hennig, SA Romero Pinto… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
To behave adaptively, animals must learn to predict future reward, or value. To do this,
animals are thought to learn reward predictions using reinforcement learning. However, in …

Active anemosensing hypothesis: how flying insects could estimate ambient wind direction through sensory integration and active movement

F van Breugel, R Jewell… - Journal of The Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Estimating the direction of ambient fluid flow is a crucial step during chemical plume tracking
for flying and swimming animals. How animals accomplish this remains an open area of …

Wind gates olfaction-driven search states in free flight

SD Stupski, F van Breugel - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
For organisms tracking a chemical cue to its source, the motion of their surrounding fluid
provides crucial information for success. Swimming and flying animals engaged in olfaction …

Olfactory search with finite-state controllers

KVB Verano, E Panizon… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Long-range olfactory search is an extremely difficult task in view of the sparsity of odor
signals that are available to the searcher and the complex encoding of the information about …

A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviors

D Aldarondo, J Merel, JD Marshall, L Hasenclever… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of
behaviors. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear …

Wind gates search states in free flight

SD Stupski, F van Breugel - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
For any organism tracking a chemical cue to its source, the motion of its surrounding fluid
provides crucial information for success. For both swimming and flying animals engaged in …