virtual reality

Researchers discover that rattlesnakes change their rattling frequency when a perceived threat approaches—tricking humans into thinking the snake is closer than it really is.

Researchers across disciplines are adopting high-tech tools to better understand the kinematics and behaviors behind insect flight.

Researchers are pulling from video games, sports broadcasting, meteorology, and even missile guidance technology to better investigate how insects have mastered flight.

Researchers are getting creative to understand flight behavior in the fast-moving and tiny animals.

A nascent but growing consumer market for brain-computer interface technology is driving the development of sleek new tools for decoding brain activity.

Virtual reality experiments reveal that the popular drug may make the brain more open to misremembering.

Flashing lights activate fly navigation neurons.

Researchers record neurological changes in a region called the mushroom body in the brains of bees completing a maze in a virtual environment.

Authors of a small study say the two abilities likely evolved in tandem.

Scientists can livestream how the mouse brain’s hippocampus maps the physical world and accesses those memories.  

Researchers track a fish in a virtual-reality system as it responds to projections of other fish of the same species.

Surrounded by a projection screen, a fly’s flight path is influenced by a collection of moving dots.

Experiments that place untethered fish, flies, and mice in simulated environments give clues about the animals’ social behavior.