Sensing a prey (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Sensing a prey

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The rat senses a prey behind its back. The sweeps narrow into a focused beam, the rhythmquickens, and the beam breaks free of head direction and point backwards at the prey. Before theanimal has begun to turn. The brain has aimed the searchlight where the body has not yetfollowed.

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Illustration from the animated film “The brain’s Searchlight” / Helmet for the Kavli Institute forSystems Neuroscience, NTNU

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