Publications by authors named "Samuel P Wechsler"
Most real-world behaviors - such as odor-guided locomotion - are performed with incomplete information. Activity in olfactory receptor neuron (ORN) classes provides information about odor identity but not the location of its source. In this study, we investigate the sensorimotor transformation that relates ORN activation to locomotion changes in Drosophila by optogenetically activating different combinations of ORN classes and measuring the resulting changes in locomotion.
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- Animals detect odors from mates and resources early on, which is crucial for their survival.
- Changes in how insects move in response to these odors help them find essential resources from long distances and then search locally.
- The review focuses on the diverse ways insects adapt their movement based on the distance to odors, highlighting differences in movement strategies and the neural circuits that control this behavior.