NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewed
Theoretical principles explain the structure of the insect head direction circuit
Pau Vilimelis Aceituno, Dominic Dall’Osto, Ioannis Pisokas
The paper shows that the sinusoidal encoding of head direction in insect circuits is optimal for noise resilience when paired with sinusoidal connectivity, supported by anatomical data and Hebbian plasticity.