Virtual reality in neuroscience research and therapy

CJ Bohil, B Alicea, FA Biocca - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Virtual reality (VR) environments are increasingly being used by neuroscientists to simulate
natural events and social interactions. VR creates interactive, multimodal sensory stimuli that …

Navigational strategies used by insects to find distant, wind-borne sources of odor

RT Cardé, MA Willis - Journal of chemical ecology, 2008 - Springer
Insects locate many resources important to survival by tracking along wind-borne odor
plumes to their source. It is well known that plumes are patchy distributions of high …

Technical and conceptual considerations for using animated stimuli in studies of animal behavior

L Chouinard-Thuly, S Gierszewski… - Current …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rapid technical advances in the field of computer animation (CA) and virtual reality (VR)
have opened new avenues in animal behavior research. Animated stimuli are powerful tools …

Virtual reality systems for rodents

K Thurley, A Ayaz - Current zoology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Over the last decade virtual reality (VR) setups for rodents have been developed and utilized
to investigate the neural foundations of behavior. Such VR systems became very popular …

Visually guided behavior and optogenetically induced learning in head-fixed flies exploring a virtual landscape

H Haberkern, MA Basnak, B Ahanonu, D Schauder… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Studying the intertwined roles of sensation, experience, and directed action in navigation
has been facilitated by the development of virtual reality (VR) environments for head-fixed …

Animals in virtual environments

H Naik, R Bastien, N Navab… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The core idea in an XR (VR/MR/AR) application is to digitally stimulate one or more sensory
systems (eg visual, auditory, olfactory) of the human user in an interactive way to achieve an …

TrackFly: virtual reality for a behavioral system analysis in free-flying fruit flies

SN Fry, N Rohrseitz, AD Straw, MH Dickinson - Journal of neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
Modern neuroscience and the interest in biomimetic control design demand increasingly
sophisticated experimental techniques that can be applied in freely moving animals under …

Vision in flying insects

M Egelhaaf, R Kern - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Vision guides flight behaviour in numerous insects. Despite their small brain, insects easily
outperform current man-made autonomous vehicles in many respects. Examples are the …

Characterizing long-range search behavior in Diptera using complex 3D virtual environments

PK Kaushik, M Renz, SB Olsson - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The exemplary search capabilities of flying insects have established them as one of the most
diverse taxa on Earth. However, we still lack the fundamental ability to quantify, represent …

2-D sex images elicit mate copying in fruit flies

S Nöbel, M Monier, D Villa, É Danchin, G Isabel - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Although the environment is three-dimensional (3-D), humans are able to extract subtle
information from two-dimensional (2-D) images, particularly in the domain of sex. However …