Abstract
Sensorimotor integration is a field rich in theory backed by
a large body of psychophysical evidence. Relating the
underlying neural circuitry to these theories has, however,
been more challenging. With a wide array of complex behaviors
coordinated by their small brains, insects provide powerful
model systems to study key features of sensorimotor
integration at a mechanistic level. Insect neural circuits
perform both hard-wired and learned sensorimotor
transformations. They modulate their neural processing based
on both internal variables, such as the animal's behavioral
state, and external ones, such as the time of day. Here we
present some studies using insect model systems that have
produced insights, at the level of individual neurons, about
sensorimotor integration and the various ways in which it can
be modified by context.
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