Highlights•Visual looming stimuli trigger escape and defensive behaviors in animals across
phyla.•Loom-evoked escapes comprise sequences of behaviors with both stereotyped and …

Motion perception is a critical capability determining a variety of aspects of insects' life,
including avoiding predators, foraging, and so forth. A good number of motion detectors …

Identified neuron classes in vertebrate cortical [1–4] and subcortical [5–8] areas and
invertebrate peripheral [9–11] and central [12–14] brain neuropils encode specific visual …

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

Our visual system allows us to rapidly identify and intercept a moving object. When this
object is far away, we base the trajectory on the target's location relative to an external frame …

Spatially invariant feature detection is a property of many visual systems that rely on visual
information provided by two eyes. However, how information across both eyes is integrated …

Animals have evolved sophisticated visual circuits to solve a vital inference problem:
detecting whether or not a visual signal corresponds to an object on a collision course. Such …

Avoidance of predators or impending collisions is important for survival. Approaching
objects can be mimicked by expanding flow-fields. Tethered flying fruit flies, when …

Similar to most visual animals, the crab Neohelice granulata relies predominantly on visual
information to escape from predators, to track prey and for selecting mates. It, therefore …

Predation risk imposes strong selection pressures on visual systems to quickly and
accurately identify the position and movement of potential predators. 1, 2 Many invertebrates …