The need for high-throughput, precise, and meaningful methods for measuring behavior
has been amplified by our recent successes in measuring and manipulating neural circuitry. …

We investigate aspects of hovering insect flight by finding the optimal wing kinematics which
minimize power consumption while still providing enough lift to maintain a time-averaged …

A frequent assumption in behavioural science is that most of an animal's activities can be
described in terms of a small set of stereotyped motifs. Here, we introduce a method for …

Just as the Wright brothers implemented controls to achieve stable airplane flight, flying
insects have evolved behavioral strategies that ensure recovery from flight disturbances. …

Even the simplest of animals exhibit behavioral sequences with complex temporal dynamics.
Prominent among the proposed organizing principles for these dynamics has been the …

In mammalian animal models, high-resolution kinematic tracking is restricted to brief sessions
in constrained environments, limiting our ability to probe naturalistic behaviors and their …

10.7554/eLife.34275.001 In most animals, the brain makes behavioral decisions that are
transmitted by descending neurons to the nerve cord circuitry that produces behaviors. In …

Flying insects perform aerial maneuvers through slight manipulations of their wing motions.
Because such manipulations in wing kinematics are subtle,a reliable method is needed to …

A common feature in many neuroscience datasets is the presence of hierarchical data
structures, most commonly recording the activity of multiple neurons in multiple animals across …

It is unclear where in the nervous system evolutionary changes tend to occur. To localize
the source of neural evolution that has generated divergent behaviors, we developed a new …