The visual stimuli attributes instrumental for collective-motion-related decision-making in locusts.

ABSTRACT: Visual interactions play an instrumental role in collective-motion-related decision-making. However, our understanding of the various tentative mechanisms that can serve the visual-based decision-making is limited. We investigated the role that different attributes of the visual stimuli play in the collective-motion-related motor response of locust nymphs. We monitored and analyzed the behavioral responses of individual locusts tethered in a natural-like walking posture over an airflow-suspended trackball to carefully selected stimuli comprising various black rectangular shapes. The experimental findings together with a prediction model relating the level of behavioral response to the visual stimuli attributes indicate a major role of the number of objects in the visual field, and a furthe

SUBMITTER: Bleichman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11630512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature