Kiran D. Bhattcharyya
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Aversion and attraction are fundamental drives which produce a wide range of orienting behaviors in organisms with nervous systems. Moreover, vertebrate animals must control a large number of degrees of freedom (motor neurons -> muscles -> joints) in order to produce these behaviors fast enough to respond to stimuli. I’m interested in investigating how the nervous system handles this degree-of-freedom problem by studying the larval zebrafish on a behavioral and neural level as it responds to appetitive and aversive visual stimuli.
Publications
Intersection of motor volumes predicts the outcome of predator-prey interactions
Kiran D. Bhattacharyya, David L. McLean, Malcolm A. MacIver
bioRxiv, 2019 (Preprint)
Visual threat assessment and reticulospinal encoding of calibrated responses in larval zebrafish
Kiran D. Bhattacharyya, David L. McLean, Malcolm A. MacIver
Current Biology, 2017 (Article)