Symposium at Behaviour 2015

Talks

 

10:45 Cynthia Tedore 

            Vision in humans versus animals: what computer animation can and cannot test

 

11:00 Mirjam Amcoff             Females trained on red food prefer red male ornaments: sensory exploitation in the swordtail characin

 

11:15 Tomohiro Nakayasu

            How to hack animals using virtual reality technologies

 

11:30 Tina Peckmezian

           Visual working memory in a jumping spider: a closed-loop, virtual reality paradigm

 

11:45 Stefanie Gierszewski

            Validation of a virtual 3-D fish model for studying mate-choice copying in sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna

 

12:00 Gil G Rosenthal

           anyFish: an open-source animation system for animal behaviorists

 

12:15 Matthew Campbell

           Three-dimensional computer animations elicited a naturalistic, involuntary empathy response from chimpanzees (Pan                   troglodytes )

 

13:30 John Stowers

           Understanding Visuomotor Behaviours in Freely Flying Drosophila

 

13:45 Elisabeth Sterck

           The EMO-model: emotional bookkeeping is required for primate-like affiliative relationships

 

14:00 Laura Chouinard-Thuly

           Using 3D animations to study social learning in fish

 

14:15 Vishwesha Guttal

           Using virtual prey to investigate how predation can shape social behaviour in animal groups

 

14:30 Robert Gerlai

           Shoaling in zebrafish: From animated images to neurobiological mechanisms

 

14:45 Discussion

            Join us for a discussion on simulated stimuli! 

 

Posters

 

Stefan Fischer

Animated images: a new tool to study visual communication

 

Klaus Müller

Bring the virtual fish to life: a toolchain for creating interactive 3-D fish animations for behaviour studies

 

Ximena Nelson

Spiders in a digital world