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Behavior is more than the motor outputs that we can directly measure. Here Calhoun and colleagues devise a novel method for inferring the internal states that affect how fruit flies process sensory information during courtship, providing a new framework for understanding the neural encoding of behavior.

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Fig. 1: Inferring the hidden states underlying fly courtship behavior.

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  1. Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Kanishk Jain & Gordon J. Berman

  2. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Gordon J. Berman

  3. Initiative in the Theory and Modeling of Living Systems, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Gordon J. Berman

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Jain, K., Berman, G.J. Opening the black box of social behavior. Nat Neurosci 22, 1947–1948 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0547-4

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