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Flight simulator set-up.
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posted on 2007-05-16, 00:00 authored by Alexander Maye, Chih-hao Hsieh, George Sugihara, Björn BrembsThe fly is flying stationarily in a cylindrical arena homogeneously illuminated from behind. The fly's tendency to perform left or right turns (yaw torque) is measured continuously and fed into the computer. In closed-loop, the computer controls arena rotation (single stripe or uniform texture as patterns on the arena wall). An additional white screen (not shown) covered the arena from above for all groups.