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Whole-brain recordings in fruit flies and a neuromechanical digital twin: how intrinsic goals in hierarchical exploration capture future volitional action

The study combines whole-brain recordings in fruit flies with a neuromechanical digital twin to test whether agents trained with intrinsic motivation algorithms can reproduce the fly's spontaneous exploratory behavior in a virtual tethered-ball experiment. Agents select actions from a discrete library of low-level motor primitives and are trained without external reward using 20 intrinsic motivation algorithms; among them, DIAYN came closest to the fly in behavior and neural prospective encoding, and reproduced the additive and subtractive rules of interhemispheric kinematic encoding.

Part of the event: Whole-brain recordings in Drosophila and digital twins test intrinsically motivated agents

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