Topic: acoustic pattern recognition

The large diversity of behaviors even among closely related species indicates the evolvability of the underlying neural circuit. At the same time, the behaviors must be functionally robust, but how systems can be both robust and evolvable is still an open question in neuroscience and evolution. Studying robustness and evolvability requires the mapping between genotypes and phenotypes, which is challenging to obtain experimentally. However, models of neural circuits that generate behavior can be used as a proxy of the biological system, and the mapping between model parameters and model output