How flies see motion

A Borst, LN Groschner - Annual review of neuroscience, 2023 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Visual processing in the fly, from photoreceptors to behavior

TA Currier, MM Pang, TR Clandinin - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

Connectome-constrained networks predict neural activity across the fly visual system

JK Lappalainen, FD Tschopp, S Prakhya, M McGill… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
We can now measure the connectivity of every neuron in a neural circuit,,,,,,,–, but we cannot
measure other biological details, including the dynamical characteristics of each neuron …

A biophysical account of multiplication by a single neuron

LN Groschner, JG Malis, B Zuidinga, A Borst - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinear, multiplication-like operations carried out by individual nerve cells greatly
enhance the computational power of a neural system,–, but our understanding of their …

A complete electron microscopy volume of the brain of adult Drosophila melanogaster

Z Zheng, JS Lauritzen, E Perlman, CG Robinson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has a rich repertoire of innate and learned behaviors. Its 100,000-
neuron brain is a large but tractable target for comprehensive neural circuit map**. Only …

How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion

A Borst, J Haag, AS Mauss - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Comparisons between the ON- and OFF-edge motion pathways in the Drosophila brain

K Shinomiya, G Huang, Z Lu, T Parag, CS Xu… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Understanding the circuit mechanisms behind motion detection is a long-standing question
in visual neuroscience. In Drosophila melanogaster, recently discovered synapse-level …

Connectome-constrained deep mechanistic networks predict neural responses across the fly visual system at single-neuron resolution

JK Lappalainen, FD Tschopp, S Prakhya, M McGill… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
We can now measure the connectivity of every neuron in a neural circuit, but we are still
blind to other biological details, including the dynamical characteristics of each neuron. The …

Dynamic signal compression for robust motion vision in flies

MS Drews, A Leonhardt, N Pirogova, FG Richter… - Current biology, 2020 - cell.com
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 …

Populations of local direction–selective cells encode global motion patterns generated by self-motion

M Henning, G Ramos-Traslosheros, B Gür… - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Self-motion generates visual patterns on the eye that are important for navigation. These
optic flow patterns are encoded by the population of local direction–selective cells in the …