ArticleeLife2017
Dynamic structure of locomotor behavior in walking fruit flies.
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- The evolutionary trajectory of drosophilid walking.Current biology : CB · 2022Pooled it
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- Imprecision in Vision: Lessons From Neural Circuits in the Fly.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026Review
- Identifying the factors governing internal state switches during nonstationary sensory decision-making.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Neuroscience of Behavior.NeuroSci · 2025Review
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- Inhibitory control of locomotor statistics in walkingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Leveraging big data to uncover the eco-evolutionary factors shaping behavioural development.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
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- Fast tuning of posture control by visual feedback underlies gaze stabilization in walking Drosophila.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Predicting individual neuron responses with anatomically constrained task optimization.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
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Abstract
The function of the brain is unlikely to be understood without an accurate description of its output, yet the nature of movement elements and their organization remains an open problem. Here, movement elements are identified from dynamics of walking in flies, using unbiased criteria. On one time scale, dynamics of walking are consistent over hundreds of milliseconds, allowing elementary features to be defined. Over longer periods, walking is well described by a stochastic process composed of these elementary features, and a generative model of this process reproduces individual behavior sequences accurately over seconds or longer. Within elementary features, velocities diverge, suggesting that dynamical stability of movement elements is a weak behavioral constraint. Rather, long-term instability can be limited by the finite memory between these elementary features. This structure suggests how complex dynamics may arise in biological systems from elements whose combination need not be tuned for dynamic stability.
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