Topic: odor sensitivity

Sleep deprivation is known to drastically affect cognitive function including decision-making and attention across many different species. In this study, we leveraged the small size and conserved brain structure of larval zebrafish to investigate the consequences of sleep deprivation in the context of two well-described behaviors, a visual and an olfactory-based decision-making task. We find that in both paradigms, sleep deprivation leads to an improvement in performance. Specifically, we show that sleep deprivation increases reaction time and improves performance in a visual motion discrimina