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A simulated male fruit fly's whole nervous system, listening. Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom.
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CENTRAL BRAIN
OPTIC LOBE
OPTIC LOBE
NERVE CORD
sound reaching its ears  ·  FLY SCORE  ·  the headphones are for style: a fly hears with its antennae
BODY · motor neurons of each part
Every dot is a real neuron at its real position (MaleCNS v1.0 connectome, Janelia/Google, CC-BY 4.0). Average blink: each neuron flashes at the mean rate it fired for this song in the simulation. Replay real spikes (5 highlighted songs): the exact spikes of one simulated listen, frame by frame. The fly is a puppet: each body part moves with the activity of its own motor neurons. Not a real fly's opinion.