Topic: photomotor responses

Uncovering how a stream of sensory inputs maps onto a sequence of actions is crucial for understanding the nervous system. However, behavior is shaped not only by recent sensory stimuli but also by longer-term experiences, internal neuronal dynamics, and physiological states. As a result, the same experimental conditions can result in variable behaviors. We study the role of internal states in zebrafish larvae behavior, leveraging a rich dataset of three million movements recorded during spontaneous behavior, photomotor responses, optomotor responses, and visually driven escape in the zebraf