How neurons detect the direction of motion is a prime example of neural computation:
Motion vision is found in the visual systems of virtually all sighted animals, it is important for …

Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

Topographic maps, the systematic spatial ordering of neurons by response tuning, are
common across species. In Drosophila, the lobula columnar (LC) neuron types project from …

Detecting the direction of image motion is a fundamental component of visual computation,
essential for survival of the animal. However, at the level of individual photoreceptors, the …

Odour plumes in the wild are spatially complex and rapidly fluctuating structures carried by
turbulent airflows,,–. To successfully navigate plumes in search of food and mates, insects …

Motion vision provides essential cues for navigation and course control as well as for mate,
prey, or predator detection. Consequently, neurons responding to visual motion in a …

Motion detection is a fundamental neural computation performed by many sensory systems.
In the fly, local motion computation is thought to occur within the first two layers of the visual …

Recent experiments have shown that motion detection in Drosophila starts with splitting the
visual input into two parallel channels encoding brightness increments (ON) or decrements …

Visual motion perception is critical to many animal behaviors, and flies have emerged as a
powerful model system for exploring this fundamental neural computation. Although …

A neuron that extracts directionally selective motion information from upstream signals
lacking this selectivity must compare visual responses from spatially offset inputs …