We present a camera-based method for automatically quantifying the individual and social
behaviors of fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, interacting in a planar arena. Our system …

10.7554/eLife.04580.001 Animals discriminate stimuli, learn their predictive value and use
this knowledge to modify their behavior. In Drosophila, the mushroom body (MB) plays a key …

We present a machine learning–based system for automatically computing interpretable,
quantitative measures of animal behavior. Through our interactive system, users encode their …

Assigning behavioral functions to neural structures has long been a central goal in
neuroscience and is a necessary first step toward a circuit-level understanding of how the brain …

Recent developments in machine vision methods for automatic, quantitative analysis of social
behavior have immensely improved both the scale and level of resolution with which we …

Aggressive social interactions are used to compete for limited resources and are regulated
by complex sensory cues and the organism’s internal state. While both sexes exhibit …

Walking fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, use visual information to orient towards salient
objects in their environment, presumably as a search strategy for finding food, shelter or …

The pyloric rhythm of the stomatogastric ganglion of the crab, Cancer borealis, slows or
stops when descending modulatory inputs are acutely removed. However, the rhythm …

Hb9 is a homeodomain-containing transcription factor that acts in combination with Nkx6,
Lim3, and Tail-up (Islet) to guide the stereotyped differentiation, connectivity, and function of a …

Animals are often bombarded with visual information and must prioritize specific visual features
based on their current needs. The neuronal circuits that detect and relay visual features …