Université de Fribourg

Statistical modelling of navigational decisions based on intensity versus directionality in Drosophila larval phototaxis

Andres-Bragado, Lucia de ; Mazza, Christian ; Senn, Walter ; Sprecher, Simon G.

In: Scientific Reports, 2018, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 11272

Organisms use environmental cues for directed navigation. Understanding the basic logic behind navigational decisions critically depends on the complexity of the nervous system. Due to the comparably simple organization of the nervous system of the fruit fly larva, it stands as a powerful model to study decision-making processes that underlie directed navigation. We have quantitatively...