Google maps the fruit fly brain

Researchers at Google Research and the HHMI Janelia Research Campus have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, featuring 166,000 neurons.

Released on September 3, the MaleCNS v1.0 connectome acts as a digital blueprint. Software engineers are already using this dataset to train AI models to play games like Doom and Super Mario 64 by stimulating the fly's sensory neurons.

While the human brain contains roughly 85,000,000,000 neurons, this project provides the most detailed neural map of a complex animal achieved to date.

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Crows process visual data twice as fast as primates

Researchers publishing in Science discovered that crows take about 235 milliseconds to make visual decisions.

Macaques require up to 600 milliseconds for the same test. Crows manage this fast processing despite lacking a mammalian cerebral cortex. 🧠

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