The breadth and complexity of natural behaviors inspires awe. Understanding how our
perceptions, actions, and internal thoughts arise from evolved circuits in the brain has …

When faced with potential predators, animals instinctively decide whether there is a threat
they should escape from, and also when, how, and where to take evasive action. While …

Accurately detecting a potential collision and triggering a timely escape response is critical
in the field of robotics and autonomous vehicle safety. The lobula giant movement detector …

Escaping from imminent danger is an instinctive behaviour that is fundamental for survival,
and requires the classification of sensory stimuli as harmless or threatening. The absence of …

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

Animals respond to environmental threats, eg looming visual stimuli, with innate defensive
behaviors such as escape and freezing. The key neural circuits that participate in the …

We discovered a bimodal behavior in the genetically tractable organism Drosophila
melanogaster that allowed us to directly probe the neural mechanisms of an action selection …

Escape is one of the most studied animal behaviors, and there is a rich normative theory that
links threat properties to evasive actions and their timing. The behavioral principles of …

Animals rely on dedicated sensory circuits to extract and encode environmental features.
How individual neurons integrate and translate these features into behavioral responses …

Complex patterns of collective behaviour may emerge through self-organization, from local
interactions among individuals in a group. To understand what behavioural rules underlie …