The study of animal navigation is a complex and fertile field of research: Several questions
regarding how animals relate to external stimuli, integrating them to perform their everyday …

Flies fly by alternating between periods of fixation and body saccades, analogous to how our
own eyes move. Gaze fixation via smooth movement in fly flight has been studied …

Male mosquitoes form aerial aggregations, known as swarms, to attract females and
maximize their chances of finding a mate. Within these swarms, individuals must be able to …

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

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

Visual perception scales with changes in the visual stimulus, or contrast, irrespective of
background illumination. However, visual perception is challenged when adaptation is not …

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 …

Tracking visual objects while maintaining stable gaze is complicated by the different
computational requirements for figure-ground discrimination, and the distinct behaviors that …

Animals classify stimuli to generate appropriate motor actions. In flight, Drosophila
melanogaster classify equidistant large and small objects with categorically different …

Most animals shift gaze by a 'fixate and saccade'strategy, where the fixation phase stabilizes
background motion. A logical prerequisite for robust detection and tracking of moving …