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A Simple Behavioral Assay for Testing Visual Function in Xenopus laevis
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2014
Xenopus laevis tadpoles prefer swimming on the white side of a black/white tank. This behavior is guided by their vision. Based on this behavior, we present a simple assay to test the visual function of tadpoles.
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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior
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2014
It is unclear how top-down signals from the ventral visual stream affect movement. We developed a paradigm to test motor behavior towards a target on a 3D depth inversion illusion. Significant differences are reported in both deliberate, goal-directed movements and automatic actions under illusory and veridical viewing conditions.
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Driving Simulation in the Clinic: Testing Visual Exploratory Behavior in Daily Life Activities in Patients with Visual Field Defects
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2012
Patients with visual deficits after stroke report about different constraints in daily life most likely due to variable compensatory strategies, which are difficult to differentiate in clinical routine. We present a clinical set-up which allows measurement of different compensatory head- and eye-movement-strategies and evaluating their effects on driving performance.
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In Situ Visualization of the Phase Behavior of Oil Samples Under Refinery Process Conditions
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2017
This article describes a setup and method for the in situ visualization of oil samples under a variety of temperature and pressure conditions that aim to emulate refining and upgrading processes. It is primarily used for studying isotropic and anisotropic media involved in the fouling behavior of petroleum feeds.
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Behavioral Phenotyping of Murine Disease Models with the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST)
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2015
Prolonged and comprehensive monitoring of mice in a home-cage environment provides a deeper understanding of aberrant behavior in murine models of brain diseases. This paper describes the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST) as the key component of contemporary behavioral analysis.
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After light reaches the retina, it is converted into neural signals that travel through visual pathways. Those signals are then integrated with motor and cognitive circuits rather than treated as an isolated sensory stream. This organization allows visual processing to influence eye movements, navigation, and responses directed toward objects, linking successive stages of analysis to observable behavior.
Internal visual representations matter because the brain must turn sensory signals into information that can support useful behavior. In visual behavior research, these representations are examined through their links to action, including where an organism looks, how it navigates, or whether it responds to an object. This perspective connects perception with decision-making and learning.
It does so by examining the relationship between visual signals and the behaviors that follow, rather than treating perception as the endpoint. Neural recording can address activity within visual pathways, while behavioral measurements show the resulting action, and computational analysis can connect the two. Together, these approaches clarify how sensory information is transformed into behavior.
Researchers may measure behavior in response to visual stimuli, record neural activity, and apply computational analysis to relate signals to actions. Relating measurable outcomes to the stimuli and neural activity helps identify how visual information contributes to eye movements, navigation, or object-directed responses, while analysis connects those outcomes to underlying processing.
Outcomes can include eye movements, navigation, and object-directed responses, because these actions provide observable consequences of visual processing. Researchers can compare such behaviors with the visual stimuli used and with neural signals recorded during the task. This combination helps determine whether changes in sensory processing correspond to changes in an organism’s visually guided actions.
By linking visual stimuli, neural processing, and action, this research offers a framework for studying sensory processing, learning, and decision-making. It can also provide insight into disorders that affect vision or visually guided behavior. The same connection between measured actions and underlying circuits helps researchers ask how altered visual processing may influence everyday responses.