FRUIT FLIES are smart. For many years the race to assemble an adult fly connectome seemed likely to be won by the FlyEM project at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus, in Virginia. In 2020 FlyEM’s researchers, led by Gerry Rubin, a veteran fly biologist, published a connectome of an adult fruit-fly “hemibrain”, a set of 27,000 neurons …
Fruit flies are hard to swat. Mapping their brain might tell us why Enlarge this image toggle caption Amy Sterling for FlyWire, Princeton University, Amy Sterling for FlyWire, Princeton University, Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections …
A recent study titled Geometric Constraints on human brain function has challenged the prevailing belief that the connectome, the intricate web of nerves that link different regions of the cerebral cortex, is the primary driver of brain activity. Led by David Van Essen, a neuroscientist from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and co-authored by James Pang, a physicist at …
Researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have discovered a new way to use machine intelligence for accelerating brain mapping technique. Professor Kenji Doya, who leads the Neural Computation Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University said, “Working out how all the different brain regions are connected what we call the ‘connectome’ of …
