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 …

Nonlinear, multiplication-like operations carried out by individual nerve cells greatly
enhance the computational power of a neural system,–, but our understanding of their …

Analysing computations in neural circuits often uses simplified models because the actual
neuronal implementation is not known. For example, a problem in vision, how the eye …

The perception of visual motion is critical for animal navigation, and flies are a prominent
model system for exploring this neural computation. In Drosophila, the T4 cells of the …

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 …

Images projected onto the retina of an animal eye are rarely still. Instead, they usually
contain motion signals originating either from moving objects or from retinal slip caused by …

Inhibitory interactions between opponent neuronal pathways constitute a common circuit
motif across brain areas and species. However, in most cases, synaptic wiring and …

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 …