Energy Efficiency and Neural Control of Continuous versus Intermittent Swimming in a Fish-like Robot

Xiangxiao Liu, François A. Longchamp, Luca Zunino, Selina I. Bothner, Lisa R. Schneider, André

Guignard, Alessandro Crespi, Guillaume Bellegarda, Alexandre Bernardino, Eva A. Naumann, & Auke J. Ijspeert

[ACCEPTED Science Robotics, December 2025]

 

improv: A software platform for real-time and adaptive neuroscience experiments

Draelos A, Loring MD, Nikitchenko M, Sriworarat C, Gupta P., Sprague D, Pnevmatikakis E, Giovannucci A, Benster T, Deisseroth K, Pearson J* & Naumann EA.*

bioRxiv preprint bioRxiv 10.1101/2021.02.22.432006 February 2021, updated July 2024

Nat Commun 16, 9909 (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64856-3

 

Artificial Embodied Circuits Uncover Neural Architectures of Vertebrate Visuomotor Behaviors

Xiangxiao Liu*, Matthew D. Loring*, Luca Zunino1 Kaitlyn E. Fouke, François A. Longchamp, Alexandre Bernardino3, Auke J. Ijspeert, & Eva A. Naumann*

bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629427

Science Robotics 10, October 15, 2025, eadv4408(2025). DOI:10.1126/scirobotics.adv4408 https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2970/full

Spotlight: A tiny vertebrate reveals brain-scale network functions

He, Zichen, Jacob J. Morra, & Eva A. Naumann

Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 0, Issue 0 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2025.10.002 

Gut distension evokes rapid neural dynamics in vagal and hindbrain populations of larval zebrafish

Arinel M, Atkinson JA, Matos-Fernández KM, Drage EP, Hawkyard M, Naumann EA

bioRxiv preprint, July 2025, 2025.07. 21.665834 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.665834v1

NLP4Neuro: Sequence-to-sequence learning for neural population decoding

JJ Morra, KE Fouke, K Hang, Z He, O Traubert, TW Dunn, EA Naumann

arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02264

Neural circuits underlying divergent visuomotor strategies of zebrafish and Danionella cerebrum

Kaitlyn E. Fouke, Zichen He, Matthew D. Loring, and Eva A. Naumann

Curr. Biol., May 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.027

Compressive streak microscopy for fast sampling of fluorescent reporters of neural activity

Changjia Cai, Owen Traubert, Jovan Tormes-Vaquerano, M.Hossein Eybposh, Srinivas C.

Turaga, Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera, Eva A. Naumann, & Nicolas C. Pégard

Neurophotonics, 2025 May 22;12(2):025013. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.12.2.025013

Connectomes inform function: from time-varying dynamics to animal behaviour

Jacob J. Morra, Kaitlyn E. Fouke, Eva A. Naumann, Mark J. Daley

Natural Computing 24, 511–528 (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-025-10020-1

Imaging across multiple spatial scales with the multi-camera array microscope

Mark Harfouche, Kanghyun Kim, Kevin C. Zhou, Pavan Chandra Konda, Sunanda Sharma, Eric E. Thomson, Colin Cooke, Shiqi Xu, Lucas Kreiss, Amey Chaware, Xi Yang, Xing Yao, Vinayak Pathak, Martin Bohlen, Ron Appel, Aurélien Bègue, Clare Cook, Jed Doman, John Efromson, Gregor Horstmeyer, Jaehee Park, Paul Reamey, Veton Saliu, Eva Naumann, and Roarke Horstmeyer

Optica, vol. 10, no. 4, p. 471, Apr. 2023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.478010

Gigapixel imaging with a novel multi-camera array microscope

Eric Thomson, Mark Harfouche, Kanghyun Kim, Pavan Konda, Catherine W. Seitz, Colin Cooke, Shiqi Xu, Whitney S. Jacobs, Robin Blazing, Yang Chen, Sunanda Sharma, Timothy W. Dunn, Jaehee Park, Roarke W. Horstmeyer*, & Eva A. Naumann*

eLife (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74988

improv: A flexible software platform for adaptive neuroscience experiments

Anne Draelos, Maxim Nikitchenko, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Daniel Sprague, Matthew D. Loring, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis, Andrea Giovannucci, Eva A. Naumann*, & John M. Pearson*

bioarXiv preprint. 2021 February, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.22.432006

Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior

Matthew D. Loring, Eric E. Thomson, & Eva A. Naumann

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2020) doi:10.1016/j.conb.2020.09.011

Online neural connectivity estimation with ensemble stimulation

Anne Draelos, Eva A. Naumann, & John M. Pearson

arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13911v2. 2020 July/ NeurIPS 2020

Imaging the behavior and neural activity of freely moving organisms with a gigapixel microscope

Mark Harfouche, Timothy W. Dunn, Eva A. Naumann, & Roarke Horstmeyer

Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019, Optical Society of America, 2019, paper BT3A.3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1364/BRAIN.2019.BT3A.3

From whole-brain data to functional circuit models: the zebrafish optomotor response

Eva A. Naumann, James E. Fitzgerald, Timothy W. Dunn, Jason Rihel, Haim Sompolinsky, & Florian Engert

Cell (2016) doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.019

Brain-wide mapping of neural activity controlling zebrafish exploratory locomotion

Timothy W. Dunn*, Yu Mu*, Sujatha Narayan, Owen Randlett, Eva A. Naumann, Chao-Tsung Yang, Alexander F. Schier, Jeremy Freeman, Florian Engert, & Misha B. Ahrens

eLife (2016) doi:10.7554/eLife.12741

Neural circuits underlying visually evoked escapes in larval zebrafish

Timothy W. Dunn, Christoph Gebhardt, Eva A. Naumann, Misha B. Ahrens, Florian Engert, & Filippo Del Bene

Neuron (2016) doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.021

Whole-brain activity mapping onto a zebrafish brain atlas

Owen Randlett, Caroline L. Wee, Eva A. Naumann, Onyeka Nnaemeka, David Schoppik, James E Fitzgerald, Ruben Portugues, Alix M B Lacoste, Clemens Riegler, Florian Engert, & Alexander F Schier

Nature Methods (2015) doi:10.1038/nmeth.3581

Monitoring neural activity with bioluminescence during natural behavior

Eva A. Naumann*, Adam R. Kampff*, David A. Prober, Alexander F. Schier, & Florian Engert

Nature Neuroscience (2010) doi:10.1038/nn.2518