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Carola Städele1, Martha Rimniceanu1, Mark A Frye1
1Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 23, 2019
Abstract:
Information about behavioral states can be integrated in decision-making circuits. In Drosophila, the behavioral state - flying versus not flying - determines whether flies land or jump by dynamically coupling visual information to pre-motor descending neurons.
