"A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal", Lanz et al. 2026 (Kathy Nagel's lab). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11144-9 "Recurrent attractor networks are widely thought to form the basis of working memory, but how they can be rapidly switched on and off is unclear. Here we investigate stability and switching in a recurrent circuit of the fly navigation centre. [...] Next we examine the mechanisms of rapid switching. We find that whereas both populations show similar activity during runs, they become decoupled during turns and rest. We can reproduce these differential dynamics in our model by using inhibition to dynamically uncouple activity [...]" #neuroscience #Drosophila #RNNs