Data from: Random attention can explain apparent object choice behavior in free-walking blowflies

Flies are often observed to approach dark objects. To a naïve observer they seem to pay selective attention to one out of several objects, although previous research identified as a possible underlying mechanism a reflex-like fixation behavior integrating responses to all objects. In a combination of behavioral experiments and computational modelling, we investigated the choice behavior of flies freely walking towards an arrangement of two objects placed at a variable distance from each other. This data publication contains trajectory data of flies observed experimentally as well as the model trajectories analyzed in the corresponding paper.