• DocumentCode
    2498789
  • Title

    An insect brain computational model inspired by Drosophila melanogaster: Architecture description

  • Author

    Arena, P. ; Berg, C. ; Patané, L. ; Strauss, R. ; Termini, P.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Ing. Elettr., Elettron. e dei Sist., Univ. degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    18-23 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    7
  • Abstract
    The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is an extremely interesting insect because it shows a wealth of complex behaviors, despite its small brain. Nowadays genetic techniques allow to knock out the function of defined parts or genes in the Drosophila brain. Together with specific mutants which show similar defects in those parts or genes, hypothesis about the functions of every single brain part can be drawn. Following these experiments, a computational model of the fly Drosophila has been designed with a view to its robotic implementation.
  • Keywords
    brain models; cellular biophysics; genetics; zoology; Drosophila melanogaster; brain computational model; complex behaviors; fruit fly; genetic techniques; insect; robots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2010 International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • ISSN
    1098-7576
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6916-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596974
  • Filename
    5596974
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2498789