The ability of animals to flexibly navigate through complex environments depends on the
integration of sensory information with motor commands. The sensory modality most tightly …

There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-
blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only …

Animals rely on an internal sense of body position and movement to effectively control motor
behavior. This sense of proprioception is mediated by diverse populations of …

How to self-determine the attitude and heading of users is a challenging issue in unknown,
global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied, or magnetic disturbance environments. In …

As information flows through the brain, neuronal firing progresses from encoding the world
as sensed by the animal to driving the motor output of subsequent behavior. One of the more …

Flying insects rapidly stabilize after perturbations using both visual and mechanosensory
inputs for active control. Insect halteres are mechanosensory organs that encode inertial …

Insects represent more than 60% of all multicellular life forms, and are easily among the
most diverse and abundant organisms on earth. They evolved functional wings and the …

Flies execute their remarkable aerial maneuvers using a set of wing steering muscles, which
are activated at specific phases of the stroke cycle [1–3]. The activation phase of these …

Nervous systems sense, communicate, compute, and actuate movement using distributed
components with severe trade-offs in speed, accuracy, sparsity, noise, and saturation …

Highlights•Campaniform sensilla (CS), distributed across insect wings, sense local wing
strain.•Placement of CS determines sensory information available to the animal.•CS …