A compact genome and a tiny brain make Drosophila the prime model to understand the
neural substrate of behavior. The neurogenetic efforts to reveal neural circuits underlying …

Behavioral reactions of animals to environmental sensory stimuli are sometimes reflexive
and stereotyped but can also vary depending on contextual conditions. Engaging in active …

Like many visually active animals, including humans, flies generate both smooth and rapid
saccadic movements to stabilize their gaze. How rapid body saccades and smooth …

Many animals rely on visual figure–ground discrimination to aid in navigation, and to draw
attention to salient features like conspecifics or predators. Even figures that are similar in …

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

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

Visual figures may be distinguished based on elementary motion or higher-order non-
Fourier features, and flies track both [1]. The canonical elementary motion detector, a …

Visual object fixation and figure-ground discrimination in Drosophila are robust behaviors
requiring sophisticated computation by the visual system, yet the neural substrates remain …

Visually-guided animals rely on their ability to stabilize the panorama and simultaneously
track salient objects, or figures, that are distinct from the background in order to avoid …

The behavioral algorithms and neural subsystems for visual figure–ground discrimination
are not sufficiently described in any model system. The fly visual system shares structural …