Efficient spatial orientation in the natural environment is crucial for the survival of most
animal species. Cataglyphis desert ants possess excellent navigational skills. After far …

Visual systems extract multiple features from a scene using parallel neural circuits.
Ultimately, the separate neural signals must come together to coherently influence action …

Cephalopods are highly visual animals with camera-type eyes, large brains, and a rich
repertoire of visually guided behaviors. However, the cephalopod brain evolved …

Flying Drosophila rely on their vision to detect visual objects and adjust their flight course.
Despite their robust fixation on a dark, vertical bar, our understanding of the underlying …

Serotonin is a monoamine that acts in vertebrates and invertebrates as a modulator
promoting changes in the structure and activity of brain areas relevant to animal behavior …

Many predatory animals, such as the praying mantis, use vision for prey detection and
capture. Mantises are known in particular for their capability to estimate distances to prey by …

Developing a functional description of the neural control circuits and visual feedback paths
underlying insect flight behaviors is an active research area. Feedback controllers …

Functional imaging methodologies allow researchers to simultaneously monitor the neural
activities of all single neurons in a population, and this ability has led to great advances in …

Drosophila visuomotor processing has been intensively studied in recent years, leading to a
qualitative understanding of individual neural circuits. However, the collective operation of …

The optomotor response is a behavior displayed by insects like Drosophila melanogaster as
a response to whole-field motion. When scientists first observed this behavior, they were …