{"id":3311,"date":"2015-05-20T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2015-07-05T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T17:29:35","slug":"fruit-flies-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2015\/05\/fruit-flies-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Fruit Flies Have Emotions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For us, that&#8217;s a big step beyond just casually intuiting that a fly fleeing a visual threat must be &#8216;afraid,&#8217; based on our anthropomorphic assumptions.<strong>It suggests that the flies&#8217; response to the threat is richer and more complicated than a robotic-like avoidance reflex.<\/strong>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/drosophila-thinking-question.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/drosophila-thinking-question-257x300.png\" alt=\"Drosophila Thinking Question\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/drosophila-thinking-question-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/drosophila-thinking-question.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may be useful to game designers.  Can we make a bot that actually <em>feels fear<\/em> &#8230; and if not, how close can we get?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUsing fruit flies to study the basic components of emotion, a new Caltech study reports that a fly&#8217;s response to a shadowy overhead stimulus might be analogous to a negative emotional state such as fear &#8212; a finding that could one day help us understand the neural circuitry involved in human emotion.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/news\/do-fruit-flies-have-emotions-46769\">caltech.edu<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Study:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(15)00411-X\">Behavioral Responses to a Repetitive Visual Threat Stimulus Express a Persistent State of Defensive Arousal in Drosophila<\/a> @ Cell Press<\/p>\n<p>Media Mentions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/19\/science\/fruit-flies-are-shown-to-enter-a-fearlike-state.html\">Fruit Flies Are Shown to Enter a Fearlike State<\/a> @ NY Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2015\/0514\/Animal-emotions-Do-fruit-flies-feel-fear\">Animal emotions: Do fruit flies feel fear?<\/a> @ CS Monitor<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drosophila\">Drosophila<\/a> @ Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/2013\/06\/openworm\/\">OpenWorm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For us, that&#8217;s a big step beyond just casually intuiting that a fly fleeing a visual threat must be &#8216;afraid,&#8217; based on our anthropomorphic assumptions.It suggests that the flies&#8217; response to the threat is richer and more complicated than a robotic-like avoidance reflex.&#8221; This may be useful to game designers. Can we make a bot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,98,263,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-emotions","category-favorite-images","category-real-world-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}