Artificial intelligence
What is the common ground between making a cup of tea and putting on your shoes? Both actions consist of several movements in a row. “Just like language, which is composed of syllables arranged into sentences, many behaviors are comprised of several, sequential movements,” explains Duncan Mearns. “To understand how the brain generates behavior, we need to know the “syllables”, the building blocks of the behavior.” Aided by artificial intelligence, Mearns and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have broken down the hunting behavior of larval zebrafish into its basic building blocks. They show how these building blocks combine to form longer sequences
