Visual loom features drive shifts in behavioral choices and internal states in larval zebrafish
Leandro Scholz, Manxiu Ma, Sarah J. Stednitz, Conrad C.Y. Lee, Gilles C. Vanwalleghem, Ethan K. Scott · FENS Forum 2024
Animals must react to threatening stimuli in a way that increases their chance of survival. The visual loom is a known threatening stimulus that emulates an approaching predator and mainly elicits the C-startle escape response in larval zebrafish. However, the behavioral space of the response to the visual looms may also involve freezing and other types of swim bouts. In this work, we carried out free swimming behavioral experiments and immunofluorescence imaging protocols to explore the differences between types of visual looms and how they affect behavioral output through habituation and cha
ePoster · Neuroscience