.... For example, the motivation to hunt and hunting strategy are influenced by satiety. Here, we describe how sensory responsiveness and motor activity of a praying mantis ( Tenodera sinensis ) change as the insect feeds, leading to an altered hunting strategy. We further show that these changes can be induced...

... can originate at several sites. Using motion-sensitive lobula plate tangential cells (LPTCs) of blowflies, we address whether and in which way information processing changes for two different states of motor activity. We distinguish between the two states on the basis of haltere movements. Halteres...

..., New Haven, CT 06510, U.S.A. 08 08 1983 © 1984 by Company of Biologists 1984 Motor activity Pleurobranchaea molluscan feeding The interpretation of distributed but coupled oscillators in the brain and buccal ganglion has recently been rejected by Cohan & Mpitsos...