ePoster · Neuroscience
Control of locomotor statistics by contralateral inhibition in a pre-motor center
Hannah Gattuso, Jonathan Victor, Bard Ermentrout, Katherine Nagel · COSYNE 2023
Sat, Mar 11, 2023
During foraging, changes in sensory cues such as food odor drive changes in locomotor statistics, shifting animal behavior from dispersal to local search. While cue-evoked changes in locomotor statistics have been observed across species, the neural circuit mechanisms that govern locomotor statistics remain unclear. Here, we explore the neural encoding of locomotor statistics in Drosophila melanogaster. Analysis of walking trajectories following loss of an attractive food odor revealed multiple changes in locomotor statistics relative to baseline: a shift towards lower forward and higher an