De Franceschi, G;
Vivattanasarn, T;
Saleem, AB;
Solomon, SG;
(2016)
Vision Guides Selection of Freeze or Flight Defense Strategies in Mice.
Current Biology
, 26
(16)
pp. 2150-2154.
10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.006.
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Abstract
In prey species such as mice, avoidance of predators is key to survival and drives instinctual behaviors like freeze or flight. Sensory signals guide the selection of appropriate behavior, and for aerial predators only vision provides useful information. Surprisingly, there is no evidence that vision can guide the selection of escape strategies. Fleeing behavior can be readily triggered by a rapidly looming overhead stimulus. Freezing behavior, however, has previously been induced by real predators or their odors. Here, we discover that a small moving disk, simulating the sweep of a predator cruising overhead, is sufficient to induce freezing response in mice. Looming and sweeping therefore provide visual triggers for opposing flight and freeze behaviors and provide evidence that mice innately make behavioral choices based on vision alone.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Vision Guides Selection of Freeze or Flight Defense Strategies in Mice |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.006 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. |
| Keywords: | mouse, innate behavior, predator and prey, visual pathways |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1508016 |
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