Many animals can navigate toward a goal they cannot see based on an internal
representation of that goal in the brain's spatial maps. These maps are organized around …

A firm understanding of how fruit flies hover has emerged over the past two decades, and
recent work has focused on the aerodynamic, biomechanical and neurobiological …

Each time a locomoting fly turns, the visual image sweeps over the retina and generates a
motion stimulus. Classic behavioral experiments suggested that flies use active neural …

Detecting the direction of motion contained in the visual scene is crucial for many behaviors.
However, because single photoreceptors only signal local luminance changes, motion …

Flexible mapping between activity in sensory systems and movement parameters is a
hallmark of motor control. This flexibility depends on the continuous comparison of short …

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 the brain controls behaviour is undisputedly one of the grand goals of
neuroscience research, and the pursuit of this goal has a long tradition in insect …

Locomotion requires a balance between mechanical stability and movement flexibility to
achieve behavioral goals despite noisy neuromuscular systems, but rarely is it considered …

Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

Estimating motion is a fundamental task for the visual system of sighted animals. In
Drosophila, direction-selective T4 and T5 cells respond to moving brightness increments …