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Social feedback structures stay/switch decision-making in Drosophila

Within natural environments, different sensory stimuli can drive mutually-exclusive behaviors such as fighting, feeding, or courting. When experiencing competing cues, how do animals decide to continue executing the current behavior or to switch to a new behavior? To address this question, we developed a closed-loop behavioral paradigm that presents actively courting male Drosophila with a…

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