The insect central complex and the neural basis of navigational strategies

A Honkanen, A Adden… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - journals.biologists.com
Oriented behaviour is present in almost all animals, indicating that it is an ancient feature
that has emerged from animal brains hundreds of millions of years ago. Although many …

[HTML][HTML] A connectome of the Drosophila central complex reveals network motifs suitable for flexible navigation and context-dependent action selection

BK Hulse, H Haberkern, R Franconville… - Elife, 2021‏ - elifesciences.org
Flexible behaviors over long timescales are thought to engage recurrent neural networks in
deep brain regions, which are experimentally challenging to study. In insects, recurrent …

Integration of polarization and chromatic cues in the insect sky compass

B El Jundi, K Pfeiffer, S Heinze, U Homberg - Journal of Comparative …, 2014‏ - Springer
Animals relying on a celestial compass for spatial orientation may use the position of the
sun, the chromatic or intensity gradient of the sky, the polarization pattern of the sky, or a …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic nomenclature for the insect brain

K Ito, K Shinomiya, M Ito, JD Armstrong, G Boyan… - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Despite the importance of the insect nervous system for functional and developmental
neuroscience, descriptions of insect brains have suffered from a lack of uniform …

[HTML][HTML] NBLAST: rapid, sensitive comparison of neuronal structure and construction of neuron family databases

M Costa, JD Manton, AD Ostrovsky, S Prohaska… - Neuron, 2016‏ - cell.com
Neural circuit map** is generating datasets of tens of thousands of labeled neurons. New
computational tools are needed to search and organize these data. We present NBLAST, a …

Neural coding underlying the cue preference for celestial orientation

B el Jundi, EJ Warrant, MJ Byrne, L Khaldy… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
Diurnal and nocturnal African dung beetles use celestial cues, such as the sun, the moon,
and the polarization pattern, to roll dung balls along straight paths across the savanna …

Implementation of model explainability for a basic brain tumor detection using convolutional neural networks on MRI slices

P Windisch, P Weber, C Fürweger, F Ehret, M Kufeld… - Neuroradiology, 2020‏ - Springer
Purpose While neural networks gain popularity in medical research, attempts to make the
decisions of a model explainable are often only made towards the end of the development …

Anatomical basis of sun compass navigation II: the neuronal composition of the central complex of the monarch butterfly

S Heinze, J Florman, S Asokaraj… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Each fall, eastern North American monarch butterflies in their northern range
undergo a long‐distance migration south to their overwintering grounds in Mexico. Migrants …

The head direction circuit of two insect species

I Pisokas, S Heinze, B Webb - Elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
Recent studies of the Central Complex in the brain of the fruit fly have identified neurons with
activity that tracks the animal's heading direction. These neurons are part of a neuronal …

[HTML][HTML] Variations on an ancient theme—the central complex across insects

S Heinze - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•The insect central complex is a brain region conserved across arthropods.•The
core circuits of the central complex are largely identical across insects.•Variations between …