{"id":173000,"date":"2023-09-28T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mapping-early-visual-system-in-wasps-provides-ai-and-neural-insights"},"modified":"2023-09-28T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T02:22:48","slug":"mapping-early-visual-system-in-wasps-provides-ai-and-neural-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mapping-early-visual-system-in-wasps-provides-ai-and-neural-insights","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Early Visual System in Wasps Provides AI and Neural Insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-early-visual-system-in-wasps-provides-ai-and-neural-insights2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Neuroscientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by mapping the early visual system of a parasitic wasp, smaller than a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing advanced imaging technologies, they reconstructed the entire system at the synaptic level, a first for any animal. Despite its miniature size, the wasp\u2019s brain exhibited immense complexity, with functions and neural circuits paralleling larger brains.<\/p>\n<p>This research not only deepens understanding of neural principles but also holds potential for enhancing artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Neuroscientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by mapping the early visual system of a parasitic wasp, smaller than a grain of salt. Utilizing advanced imaging technologies, they reconstructed the entire system at the synaptic level, a first for any animal. Despite its miniature size, the wasp\u2019s brain exhibited immense complexity, with functions and neural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}