Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>.

ABSTRACT: Decision-making in animals often involves choosing actions while navigating the environment, a process markedly different from static decision paradigms commonly studied in laboratory settings. Even in decision-making assays in which animals can freely locomote, decision outcomes are often interpreted as happening at single points in space and single moments in time, a simplification that potentially glosses over important spatiotemporal dynamics. We investigated locomotor decision-making in Drosophila melanogaster in Y-shaped mazes, measuring the extent to which their future choices could be predicted through space and time. We demonstrate that turn-decisions can be reliably predicted from flies' locomotor dynamics, with distinct predictability phases emerging as flies progress thr

SUBMITTER: Lebovich L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11398310 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature