But the hope of catching wild behavior in locker rooms at halftime of games died quickly.
One problem, obviously, was catching improper behavior in the first place.
You'd probably expect that we whale researchers would have a good explanation for such eye-catching behavior.
"I was very surprised that fish-catching behavior is so widespread geographically and taxonomically across several spider families," he told the Los Angeles Times. .
Under our experimental conditions, size, speed, and contrast polarity interacted to trigger prey-catching behavior.
What are the neural substrates linking sensory perception of prey-like cues to the release of prey-catching behavior?
By systematically varying four features of the visual stimuli, we found that prey-catching behavior was selectively evoked by specific conjunctions of visual features.
Using an assay in which prey-catching behavior can be evoked in tethered larvae using synthetic visual cues [ 13], we found that the features size, speed, and contrast polarity all modulated response rate, and appeared to interact.
In summary, by imaging neural activity during behavior we were able to identify a reproducible pattern of population activity in the OTc that is associated with the release of prey-catching behavior.
In toads, prey-catching behavior is most effectively evoked by moving objects defined by the conjunction of multiple features, notably size, geometry, and orientation with respect to direction of motion (reviewed in [ 36]).
To investigate how activation of these feature-analyzing neurons might be linked to initiation of prey-catching behavior, we compared neural activity in response trials versus non-response trials.
