<< In the Drosophila brain, 'compass' neurons track the orientation of the body and head (the fly’s heading) during navigation >>
<< a visual cue can evoke synaptic inhibition in compass neurons and that R (ring) neurons mediate this inhibition. Each compass neuron is inhibited only by specific visual cue positions, indicating that many potential connections from R neurons onto compass neurons are actually weak or silent. (..) the pattern of visually evoked inhibition can reorganize over minutes as the fly explores an altered virtual-reality environment. >>
Yvette E. Fisher, Jenny Lu, et al. Sensorimotor experience remaps visual input to a heading-direction network. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1772-4. Nov 20, 2019.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1772-4
To navigate, flies make flexible mental maps of the world. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Nov 20, 2019.
https://m.phys.org/news/2019-11-flies-flexible-mental-world.html
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<< Considerando invece l' immagine classica della "mosca nella bottiglia", >> in: 2066 - voli a casaccio. Notes. Oct 01, 2006.
https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2006/10/2066-voli-casaccio.html
