ArticleCurrent biology : CB2016
Vision Drives Accurate Approach Behavior during Prey Capture in Laboratory Mice.
Article in Current biology : CB, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
127 citing papers in PubMed.
- PSD-95 drives binocular vision maturation critical for predation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Mice use predictive environmental cues to adapt predatory behavior in hunting tasks of variable difficulty.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- TNF-dependent regulation of synaptic plasticity and neuronal activity: implications for psychiatric disorders.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Mouse predation is dependent on a population of POU6F2-positive retinal ganglion cells.iScience · 2026Article
- Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
- Ethological learning during the critical period resets synaptic setpoints in mouse binocular visual cortex.Neuron · 2026Article
- Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse.Annual review of neuroscience · 2026Review
- Visual uncertainty and task demands shape active sensing strategies in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- AVATAR: AI Vision Analysis for Three-dimensional Action in Real-time.Experimental neurobiology · 2026Article
- Predictive pursuit emerges in high-dimensional recurrent neural networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The functional organization of retinal input to the mouse superior colliculus.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Behavioural states control binocular vision through input-specific mechanisms.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Vision guides directed orienting movements during obstacle avoidance in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Functional organization and natural scene responses across mouse visual cortical areas revealed with encoding manifolds.PloS one · 2026Article
- A Corticotectal Pathway Regulates Vibrissal Somatosensory-Mediated Predatory Hunting Learning.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Article
- Connectivity, Computation, and Plasticity of the Early Visual System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
- Plateau potentials are instructive signals for behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the neocortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Distinct brain regions map olfactory and visual spaces.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Sex differences in visually guided orienting behavior emerges during adolescence in mice.iScience · 2025Article
67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The ability to genetically identify and manipulate neural circuits in the mouse is rapidly advancing our understanding of visual processing in the mammalian brain [1, 2]. However, studies investigating the circuitry that underlies complex ethologically relevant visual behaviors in the mouse have been primarily restricted to fear responses [3-5]. Here, we show that a laboratory strain of mouse (Mus musculus, C57BL/6J) robustly pursues, captures, and consumes live insect prey and that vision is necessary for mice to perform the accurate orienting and approach behaviors leading to capture. Specifically, we differentially perturbed visual or auditory input in mice and determined that visual input is required for accurate approach, allowing maintenance of bearing to within 11° of the target on average during pursuit. While mice were able to capture prey without vision, the accuracy of their approaches and capture rate dramatically declined. To better explore the contribution of vision to this behavior, we developed a simple assay that isolated visual cues and simplified analysis of the visually guided approach. Together, our results demonstrate that laboratory mice are capable of exhibiting dynamic and accurate visually guided approach behaviors and provide a means to estimate the visual features that drive behavior within an ethological context.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.