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  • The brain must distinguish self-generated environmental changes from external ones.
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  • To investigate differences in fruit fly brain activity during closed-loop (self-controlled) versus open-loop (passive viewing) visual stimulus presentation.
  • To determine if active control influences neural processing compared to passive observation.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded local field potential (LFP) activity in fruit fly brains using a virtual reality setup.
  • Flies controlled a virtual object's flicker (7 Hz) via movement on an air-supported ball (closed-loop).
  • Compared brain activity during closed-loop control with open-loop replay of the same visual stimulus.

Main Results:

  • Identical receptive fields and similar frequency tag strength were observed in both closed-loop and open-loop conditions.
  • Brain responses were differentially modulated in central versus peripheral regions depending on control.
  • Local field potential (LFP) coherence increased significantly during closed-loop control compared to open-loop replay.

Conclusions:

  • Closed-loop control of visual stimuli enhances temporal coordination across the Drosophila brain.
  • Simultaneous neural activity sampling from multiple brain regions and examining temporal relationships (coherence) are vital for understanding goal-directed behavior and visual attention in flies.