Sleep is a familiar, periodic occurrence in our lives. Despite its place in everyday
experience, the existence of this suspended state of consciousness has intrigued and …

Whether walking, running, slithering, or flying, organisms display a remarkable ability to
move through complex and uncertain environments. In particular, animals have evolved to …

Physical injury often impairs mobility, which can have dire consequences for survival in
animals. Revealing mechanisms of robust biological intelligence to prevent system failure …

Visual object tracking in animals as diverse as felines, frogs, and fish supports behaviors
including predation, predator avoidance, and landscape navigation. Decades of …

For walking, swimming, and flying animals, the optomotor response is essential to stabilize
gaze. How flexible is the optomotor response? Classic work in Drosophila has argued that …

Maintaining stable gaze while tracking moving objects is commonplace across animal taxa,
yet how diverse ecological needs impact these processes is poorly understood. During …

To guide locomotion, animals control gaze via movements of their eyes, head, and/or body,
but how the nervous system controls gaze during complex motor tasks remains elusive. In …

Animal locomotion is highly adaptive, displaying a large degree of flexibility, yet how this
flexibility arises from the integration of mechanics and neural control remains elusive. For …

Executing agile locomotion requires animals to integrate sensory feedback, often from
multiple sources. For example, human gaze is mediated by multiple feedback loops that …

Locomotion is a hallmark of organisms which has enabled adaptive radiation to an
extraordinarily diverse class of ecological niches, and allows animals to move across vast …