Going wild: Neural processing in freely moving animals

该项目旨在使用无线神经记录中的新技术，揭示小型神经网络如何处理视觉信息，以做出快速、准确的决策。该项目旨在产生关于上下文信息处理的生物学解决方案以及微小、简单的生物神经系统如何控制关键动物行为(如躲避捕食者)的新知识。预期结果将是新的生物学见解，用于开发小型自主机器人所需的受生物启发的新型决策处理系统。该项目的预期收益将是基础神经科学和动物行为方面的进步，预计将为快速发展的工业部门提供重大价值。

This project aims to use new techniques in wireless neural recording to reveal how small neural networks process visual information to make fast, accurate decisions. The project is designed to generate new knowledge about biological solutions to contextual information processing and how tiny, simple biological neural systems control critical animal behaviours such as predator avoidance. Expected outcomes will be new biological insights with which to develop novel bio-inspired decision-making processing systems as required in small, autonomous robots. The anticipated benefits of this project will be advances in fundamental neuroscience and animal behaviour and is expected to provide significant value to a fast-developing industrial sector.