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

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 …

Understanding the circuit mechanisms behind motion detection is a long-standing question
in visual neuroscience. In Drosophila melanogaster, recently discovered synapse-level …

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 …

Detecting the direction of motion contained in the visual scene is crucial for many behaviors.
However, because single photoreceptors only signal local luminance changes, motion …

Sensory systems need to reliably extract information from highly variable natural signals.
Flies, for instance, use optic flow to guide their course and are remarkably adept at …

Visual motion provides rich geometrical cues about the three-dimensional configuration of
the world. However, how brains decode the spatial information carried by motion signals …

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

An animal's self-motion generates optic flow across its retina, and it can use this visual
signal to regulate its orientation and speed through the world. While orientation control has …

The behavioral state of an animal can dynamically modulate visual processing. In flies, the
behavioral state is known to alter the temporal tuning of neurons that carry visual motion …