Topic: locomotor efficacy

To survive, animals must respond appropriately to changing external conditions. To do so quickly, animals use their past experiences to inform future actions. However, how past experience modulate information processing which ultimately influence behavior is still not well understood. Here we addressed this question by investigating how larval zebrafish use past action-outcome relationships to influence future responses to stimuli at the perceptual and behavioral levels. Fish were first made to adapt to changing locomotor efficacy, the difficulty of translating oneself through space. Fish inc