Topic: dynamical firing rate model

Background: Many animals use celestial cues to determine their heading. In the insect brain, the central complex is crucial for spatial orientation. In desert locusts and fruit flies, compass neurons in the central complex encode the animal’s heading relative to the sun [2, 5]. However, the neural computations underlying the transformations of visual inputs to a compass signal remain elusive. In fruit flies, it is hypothesised that visual information is relayed from tangential neu- rons to compass neurons through likely inhibitory all-to-all connections with plastic synapses [1]. We aim to exp