Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?

Animals navigate odor plumes by exploiting dynamic and intermittent cues. Here, the authors show that mice can discriminate among different fluctuating odor signals, and characterize their neural enco...

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Neuroethology, the study of the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviours, has faced challenges due to the complexity of behaviours, limitations in genetic manipulation, and recording constrain…

Proprioception is the sense of the position and movement of our bodies. It is our most important sense -- without it, it would be very difficult to move our bodies to do anything. The Agrawal lab stu...

Many animals rely on visual information to navigate their environment. Bigge et al. show that a hawkmoth uses the same visual cues in the dorsal and ventral parts of its visual field for different tas...

How Animals Sense Earth's Amazing Secrets

The Diversity Award is an annual initiative, launched in 2021, to support neuroethological scientists disadvantaged due to gender, ethnicity, disability, class, or other characteristics, and help them...

Our group studies the neural mechanisms underlying spatial memory in insects. As central place foragers, honeybees begin their foraging trip at a fixed location, i.e., their nest. This site fidelity.....