Background The quantitative study of behavioral responses to visual stimuli provides crucial
information about the computations executed by neural circuits. Insects have long served as …

In the present study we investigated the behavioural strategies with which freely flying fruit
flies (Drosophila) control their flight trajectories during active optomotor stimulation in a free …

Modern neuroscience and the interest in biomimetic control design demand increasingly
sophisticated experimental techniques that can be applied in freely moving animals under …

We describe a low cost, novel virtual reality-based insect flight simulator that combines
visual, olfactory and mechanosensory stimuli with multichannel neurophysiological …

Sensing is often implicitly assumed to be the passive acquisition of information. However,
part of the sensory information is generated actively when animals move. For instance …

Studying how animals interface with a virtual reality can further our understanding of how
attention, learning and memory, sensory processing, and navigation are handled by the …

Optic flow-based navigation has been studied extensively in flies, both in tethered as well as
in freely flying animals. As neural control elements, the tangential cells of the lobula plate …

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Many navigating insects include the celestial polarization pattern as an additional visual cue
to orient their travels. Spontaneous orientation responses of both walking and flying fruit flies …

Foraging animals may benefit from remembering the location of a newly discovered food
patch while continuing to explore nearby [1, 2]. For example, after encountering a drop of …