Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210102595

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP210102595

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

A role for sleep in optimising attention. All animal brains are prediction machines, which allows even tiny flies to effectively navigate complex environments. To predict what will happen next is important for guiding attention, but also for detecting anything surprising. This project aims to understand how prediction is optimized by sleep in Drosophila flies. We aim to use electrophysiology and calcium imaging to map visual prediction error signals across the fly brain, and then determine how genetically controlled delivery of sleep regulates the quality and distribution of these signals. This knowledge will benefit our understanding of how brains balance a capacity for prediction versus surprise, by examining how evolution has solved this difficult problem in the smallest brains.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-07-2021

End Date: 14-07-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $397,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Sensory Systems

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Sensory Systems | Zoology

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