Topic: grounded locomotion

Animal ability to orient and navigate requires selecting appropriate motor responses based on the perception and integration of the environmental information. This is the case of the optokinetic response (OKR) in D. melanogaster, where optic flow visual stimulation modulates walking or flying patterns. Despite a large body of literature on OKR, there is still limited understanding about the impact on OKR of concomitant, potentially conflictual, inputs originating from other sensory channels, as happens in the environment (multimodal integration). We combined optic flow stimulation with the pre