Topic: behavioral response

The ability to encode visual motion information is an essential prerequisite for organisms to navigate their surroundings. For example, animals need to detect whole-field motion in order to stabilize themselves within their environment. While it is known that some features of naturalistic motion such as its directionality are already extracted in the retina, it is still unclear whether all the necessary cues are already available at these early stages. Here we take advantage of the optomotor response (OMR) behavior in the larval zebrafish to study how these animals respond to whole-field motio