Surrounded by a projection screen, a fly’s flight path is influenced by a collection of moving dots.
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Moving dots provide strong visual motion stimuli for a fly. Using the virtual reality stimuli, researchers can control where the fly moves. The red circles represent the fly’s position. The left frame shows live camera footage. The right frame shows the plot of flight positions.
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Ashley started at The Scientist in 2018. Before joining the staff, she worked as a freelance editor and writer, a writer at the Simons Foundation, and a web producer at Science News, among other positions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a master’s degree in science writing from MIT. Ashley edits the Scientist to Watch and Profile sections of the magazine and writes news, features, and other stories for both online and print.
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