Topic: sensory salience

This study investigates multisensory integration in weakly electric fishes, Apteronotus albifrons and Eigenmannia virescens, during their natural refuge tracking behavior. Our goal is to examine and model the sensory reweighting that occurs in the midbrain in relation to changes in the sensory salience. Specifically, we manipulate illumination (light, dim light, dark), conductivity (low, medium, high), refuge structure (with/out windows), and refuge length (short, medium, high) and observe how the weights of visual and electrosensory systems are dynamically adjusted. We conducted a total of 27

Animals improve their perception of the world by constantly integrating multi-modal sensory information they gather from the environment. The CNS weights and combines this information based on their reliabilities. However, cue reliability depends greatly on its salience, and it varies continuously while the animal moves through different environments. Our goal is to investigate the mechanisms adopted by animals while they regulate their behavior during multisensory behavioral control. Specifically, we study multisensory integration in Eigenmannia virescens, a species of weakly electric fish du

The salience of multisensory information plays a key role in the behavioral performance of animals. Specifically, Danio rerio (zebrafish) utilizes sensory feedback from multiple modalities to regulate their target tracking behavior during rheotaxis. We have previously shown that zebrafish tracks the trajectories of a D-shaped tube that obscure the flow during their innate rheotaxis. We investigate the impact of the quality of multisensory information on the target tracking performance of zebrafish within a custom-built swim tunnel. To achieve this, we use a transparent D-shaped tube to obscure