Video credit: Andrew Mountcastle
Sensory feedback must be particularly fast and efficient in insect flight, making it a uniquely interesting system for studying how neurons represent sensory information.
• Using electrophysiology experiments, we directly record from sensory neurons to examine how information is represented by their electrical activity.
• Using computational methods, we simulate neural activity to investigate how changes in different properties — like wing stiffness or neural response threshold — impact sensory signals.