TheFlyBrain/0015-penceOfficial Experiment
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Specimen 237specimen-237Portrait Bust Landing Training: lab notesc489bfa
recordingFull-length recordingpending
README.mdPortrait Bust Landing Trainingoverview
setup.mdA procedural suited bust with ears, white swept hair and a curved facial patch carrying th3 entries
measurement.mdRetinal-only input for three 100 ms stimulus bins, with paired connected and disconnected 3 entries
limitations.mdRecognizable portrait geometry, not a scan or anatomically registered reconstruction; no e2 entries
sources.mdU.S. National Archives, Pence vice-presidential records2 sources
README

Portrait Bust Landing Training

experimentNo. 0015categoryHistory & trainingrecordingpendingdataCC BY 4.0

The fly flies a pre-programmed approach and lands on the white hair of a procedural portrait bust of Mike Pence whose face uses his official vice-presidential portrait.

Workstation still from Portrait Bust Landing Training

Recording pending publication. Follow along for the release.

Setup

  • A procedural suited bust with ears, white swept hair and a curved facial patch carrying the official portrait.
  • Overview, Fly / controls, Target and Plan cameras.
  • Readout training uses four scene variations; further controls test the frozen readout and demonstrate the pre-programmed action.

Measurement

  • Retinal-only input for three 100 ms stimulus bins, with paired connected and disconnected branches.
  • An external nearest-example regressor reads six downstream population rates and selects one lateral landing endpoint.
  • Body movement and the flight path are pre-programmed; neural weights never change.

Limitations

  • Recognizable portrait geometry, not a scan or anatomically registered reconstruction; no endorsement is implied.
  • No biological learning is demonstrated.

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