Research · Fish
Zebrafish
Attention and behavioral state
How does a larval zebrafish switch its attention, and what does that reveal about state-dependent processing?
Larval zebrafish are small and transparent enough to record activity across the whole brain while they behave. With the Engert and Ahrens labs, we study how fish switch between attending to and ignoring a visual stimulus, and model these switches as transitions between engaged and disengaged behavioral states.