Gaze direction

Foraging is a complex behavior vital for survival regularly involving memory anddecision-making to optimize costs and benefits. How long should an animal stay near a foodsource, and when should it move to a better food patch? In this poster, we investigate pigeons’foraging behavior testing predictions from the marginal value theorem (MVT) in a well-controlled environment with 3D pose tracking. We used DeepLabCut to analyze the behaviorof twelve homing pigeons in a 4sqm arena with two separate food patches. We manipulatedthe elevation of the food patches to investigate foraging strategies condi

Much of our current understanding of brain-based visual processing is derived from studies involving immobilised animals. However, in reallife scenarios, visual perception is intrinsically linked with the movements of the eyes, head, and body. To gain amore comprehensive understanding of visual processing under these conditions, studying eye movement in freely moving subjects, such as mice is crucial. Our research is dedicated (i) to developing innovative hardware and software solutions to facilitate this advanced tracking and analysis and (ii) employing these techniques to study freely moving

…rotational symmetry as a function of gaze direction, wh