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Aurel A. Lazar

@aalazar.bsky.social
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Focus on the molecular architecture and functional logic of the Drosophila brain, building interactive computing tools for the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory, computing w/ fruit fly brain circuits, creating neuroinformation processing machines.

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HaDi MaBouDi @maboudi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we build truly intelligent machines without first understanding how intelligence works in nature? Following two days of discussion at our Theo Murphy meeting in Bristol, we explored the gap between natural and artificial intelligence. www.linkedin.com/pulse/nature... #Ai #AnimalMind #Cognition
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Nature of Intelligence 2026: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence, Bristol
What an inspiring two days. Our Theo Murphy meeting, Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence, has successfully concluded in Bristol after two days of stimulating talks, cha...
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Elements of olfactory intelligence in Drosophila - Biological Cybernetics
The ability to make the world of odorants intelligible is a key capability of the Drosophila olfactory system that we shall call olfactory intelligence. Characterizing the functional logic of the Dros...
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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NeuroGraphBench: Interacting with Drosophila Connectomes at Scale for Exploring the Functional Logic of Neural Circuits
Drosophila connectomic datasets provide increasingly comprehensive maps of neuronal morphology and synaptic connectivity, offering an unprecedented opportunity to explore the structural organization o...
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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The Connectome and the Quest for the Functional Logic of the Drosophila Early Olfactory System
In recent decades, the early olfactory system (EOS) of the fruit fly has become a leading model for studying olfactory processing and associative memory, owing in part to a well-characterized feedforw...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 07/07/2026
Are you a #neuroscientist or #AI researcher with an interest in the nature of intelligence? Join us in Bristol for a residential scientific meeting examining how intelligence emerges in biological systems: royalsociety.org/science-even... @maboudi.bsky.social @minibraincognition.bsky.social
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Small Brain Cognition Lab @minibraincognition.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Heliox has made a podcast episode about our latest paper on how houseflies see and react so fast. It gives a nice, accessible overview of synaptic high-frequency jumping and why fly vision can outperform conventional expectations for biological neural systems. 🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...
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🪰 Why Houseflies See Faster Than AI - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬
📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/archive?sort=newThrough self-motion, flies efficiently translate image motion into temporally-precise, predictive high-speed vision.The humble, infuriating, ...
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HaDi MaBouDi @maboudi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I am very pleased to announce our upcoming Theo Murphy meeting at the Royal Society: Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal and Artificial Intelligence 21–22 September 2026 - Bristol, UK Registration deadline: 1 July Register here: lnkd.in/eGDAux-M #AI #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience
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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Tiny insect brain discovery offers a blueprint for faster and more efficient AI and robots
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Flies vision is tightly intertwined with action, using motion itself to sharpen perception and speed up neural processing. Understanding how biology achieves predictive, low‑delay sensing could inspire new approaches in artificial vision and neuromorphic engineering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour - Nature Communications
How insects maintain precise vision during rapid motion remains unclear. Here, the authors show that motion-driven photoreceptor dynamics and synaptic high-frequency jumping enable hyperacute, minimal...
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Beyond Static Perception: Animals, Neurons and Synapses Move to Compute Efficiently: neuro info processing, beyond electrochemical signaling, is dynamically shaped by motion across bio scales, from morphodynamic ultrastructural changes to whole-body movements doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.1093.v1
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Elements of Olfactory Intelligence in Drosophila
The ability to make the world of odorants intelligible is a key capability of the Drosophila olfactory system that we shall call olfactory intelligence. We argue that olfactory intelligence does not o...
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Synaptic High-Frequency Jumping: Photoreceptor Microsaccades Drive Hyperacute Vision
YouTube video by Centre for Cognition in Small Brains
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Synaptic High-Frequency Jumping: Ultrafast Fly Responses to Looming Stimuli
YouTube video by Centre for Cognition in Small Brains
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Aurel A. Lazar @aalazar.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour
During high-speed behaviour, animals must predict, detect, process, and respond synchronously to rapid environmental changes, including those caused by their own movements. How neural systems achieve ...
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