Damon A. Clark

The paper shows heavy-tailed synaptic connections improve neural communication robustness against noise across species and brain regions.

This study identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila that computes odor motion by transforming bilateral odor inputs into direction-selective signals.

The paper shows that luminance cues alone can trigger approach perception in humans and fruit flies, revealing a cross-species percept and demonstrating sequenced integration of cues in neural circuits.

The paper shows how thermosensory neurons in C. elegans use gain modulation based on experience to encode temperature changes relevant for navigation.

This study shows humans can detect rising and falling pitch using positive and negative spectrotemporal intensity correlations, analogous to visual motion detection.

The paper shows Drosophila exhibits a visual motion reversal illusion similar to mammals, attributing it to afterimages and specific neural pathways.

The paper analyzes mitochondrial morphology and spatial organization in Drosophila neurons to identify systematic rules governing their positioning and cell-type specificity.

This study shows that fruit flies use odor gradient and motion cues differently depending on plume structure, with gradients guiding in smooth plumes and motion in turbulent ones.

The paper investigates time reversal symmetry breaking in visual motion detection using fruit flies, finding that neural network models trained on natural contrast distributions exhibit symmetry breaking even when data is symmetric.

This study identifies visual projection neurons in Drosophila that encode parallax signals for distance estimation during free locomotion, showing both direction-selective and non-direction-selective neurons contribute to this process.

The paper shows that Drosophila's visual system adapts to stimulus sparsity, enhancing responses to infrequent stimuli by engaging both ON and OFF pathways.

This study shows that Drosophila can suppress and reverse optomotor turning in response to specific visual stimuli, indicating complex dynamics beyond simple reflexes.

This study shows how fruit flies use negative visual evidence to improve heading stability during self-motion estimation.

This study shows Drosophila use odor motion direction, detected via antennae signal correlations, to navigate odor plumes, similar to visual motion detection.

The paper manipulates neuron dynamics in Drosophila to study their role in motion detection and velocity sensitivity.

This study identifies a neural circuit in Drosophila that uses visual geometry to enable collision avoidance by integrating object and motion signals.

The paper maps columnar inputs to Drosophila lobula using connectomic data and clustering, revealing new connectivity patterns between input and output neurons.

The paper trains shallow neural networks to detect collisions and finds they recover features of visual loom-selective neurons in Drosophila.

This study shows that walking Drosophila use biased random walks within odor plumes, guided by the timing of odor encounters rather than reflexive behaviors.

The paper develops a minimal synaptic model for Drosophila T4 cells to explain direction-selective computations and tests its ability to reproduce experimental responses across various stimuli.