2022
Neural mechanisms to exploit positional geometry for collision avoidance
Tanaka R, Clark DA. Neural mechanisms to exploit positional geometry for collision avoidance. Current Biology 2022, 32: 2357-2374.e6. PMID: 35508172, PMCID: PMC9177691, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpatial vision taskDistinct visual featuresNeural mechanismsVisual worldVisual motionSmall neural circuitsCollision avoidance behaviorSpatial visionMotion signalsVisual featuresNeural circuitsDrosophila exhibitConnectomic analysisGeometrical cuesSpatial informationVision tasksActivity drivesTuning mirrorMotion detectorsPsychophysicsCuesObjectsTaskBehaviorAvoidance
2021
Predicting individual neuron responses with anatomically constrained task optimization
Mano O, Creamer MS, Badwan BA, Clark DA. Predicting individual neuron responses with anatomically constrained task optimization. Current Biology 2021, 31: 4062-4075.e4. PMID: 34324832, PMCID: PMC8741219, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.090.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsArtificial networksInference problemStatistical representationTask optimizationSmall neural networksNeural networkNoise constraintsMotion detection modelArtificial neural networkBiological circuitsMotion detectorsModelNetworkPropertiesOptimizationConstraintsIndividual neuron responsesDetectorNoiseProblemNeuron propertiesCircuit