Failures that are not failures: unobserved sensory history predicts escape behavior

Animals often fail to respond to reliable sensory stimuli, a phenomenon commonly attributed to stochastic neural noise or modulation by internal states.

Animals often fail to respond to reliable sensory stimuli, a phenomenon commonly attributed to stochastic neural noise or modulation by internal states. In locusts, looming-evoked jump escape response (JER) fails in ~40% of trials, and these failures correlate with multiplexed…