Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Zebrafish capable of generating future state prediction error show improved active avoidance behavior in virtual reality

  • Makio Torigoe,
  • Tanvir Islam,
  • Hisaya Kakinuma,
  • Chi Chung Alan Fung,
  • Takuya Isomura,
  • Hideaki Shimazaki,
  • Tazu Aoki,
  • Tomoki Fukai,
  • Hitoshi Okamoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26010-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Using a closed-loop virtual reality system for fish, the authors show that zebrafish are capable of assigning rules to the scenery they see, and of generating a state prediction error by comparing reality with a prediction derived from an internal model.