Background Many animals extract specific cues from rich visual scenes to guide appropriate
behaviors. Such cues include visual motion signals produced both by self-movement and by …

Highlights•Insects offer experimental advantages for the study of basic elements of
cognition.•Insect behaviors suggest the use of sophisticated internal representations.• …

The integration of sensorimotor signals to internally estimate self-movement is critical for
spatial perception and motor control. However, which neural circuits accurately track body …

Understanding how activity patterns in specific neural circuits coordinate an animal's
behavior remains a key area of neuroscience research. Genetic tools and a brain of …

To survive, animals must convert sensory information into appropriate behaviours,. Vision is
a common sense for locating ethologically relevant stimuli and guiding motor responses …

Highlights•Behavioral decisions require interactions between regions throughout the fly
brain.•Three paths convey distinct visual information to central brain areas.•Optic glomeruli …

A mechanistic understanding of neural computation requires determining how information is
processed as it passes through neurons and across synapses. However, it has been …

Many animals rely on an internal heading representation when navigating in varied
environments,,,,,,,,–. How this representation is linked to the sensory cues that define …

Changes in behavioral state modify neural activity in many systems [1–5]. In some
vertebrates such modulation has been observed and interpreted in the context of attention …

In the eye, visual information is segregated into modalities such as color and motion, these
being transferred to the central brain through separate channels. Here, we genetically …