Connections between neurons can be mapped by acquiring and analysing electron
microscopic brain images. In recent years, this approach has been applied to chunks of …

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a key model organism in
neuroscience, in large part due to the concentration of collaboratively generated molecular …

We can now measure the connectivity of every neuron in a neural circuit,,,,,,,–, but we cannot
measure other biological details, including the dynamical characteristics of each neuron …

Brains comprise complex networks of neurons and connections, similar to the nodes and
edges of artificial networks. Network analysis applied to the wiring diagrams of brains can …

As connectomics advances, it will become commonplace to know far more about the
structure of a nervous system than about its function. The starting point for many …

A goal of neuroscience is to obtain a causal model of the nervous system. The recently
reported whole-brain fly connectome,–specifies the synaptic paths by which neurons can …

Many animals use visual information to navigate,,–, but how such information is encoded
and integrated by the navigation system remains incompletely understood. In Drosophila …

Animal movement is controlled by motor neurons (MNs), which project out of the central
nervous system to activate muscles. MN activity is coordinated by complex premotor …

Vision provides animals with detailed information about their surroundings, conveying
diverse features such as color, form, and movement across the visual scene. Computing …

In the perception of color, wavelengths of light reflected off objects are transformed into the
derived quantities of brightness, saturation and hue. Neurons responding selectively to hue …