Current concepts of sensory processing in the cerebral cortex emphasize serial extraction
and recombination of features in hierarchically structured feed-forward networks in order to …

Animals evolved in complex environments, producing a wide range of behaviors, including
navigation, foraging, prey capture, and conspecific interactions, which vary over timescales …

Animal behaviors are commonly organized into long-lasting states that coordinately impact
the generation of diverse motor outputs such as feeding, locomotion, and grooming …

Microbes are ubiquitous in the natural environment of Caenorhabditis elegans. Bacteria
serve as a food source for C. elegans but may also cause infection in the nematode host …

Maintaining or shifting between behavioral states according to context is essential for
animals to implement fitness-promoting strategies. How the integration of internal state, past …

Recent evidence demonstrates that Crocus sativus L.(saffron) counteracts oxidative stress,
mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation, closely linked to initiation and …

One of the reasons that most multicellular animals survive and thrive is because of the
adaptable and plastic nature of their nervous systems. For an organism to survive, it is …

A hallmark of adaptive behavior is the ability to flexibly respond to sensory cues. To
understand how neural circuits implement this flexibility, it is critical to resolve how a static …

Predatory animals pursue prey in a noisy sensory landscape, deciding when to continue or
abandon their chase. The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a micropredator that first detects …

Coordinated transitions between mutually exclusive motor states are central to behavioral
decisions. During locomotion, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans spontaneously cycles …