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

As connectomics advances, it will become commonplace to know far more about the
structure of a nervous system than about its function. The starting point for many …

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 …

Neural implementations of visual behaviors in Drosophila have been dissected intensively
in the past couple of decades. The availability of premiere genetic toolkits, behavioral …

To survive, animals must convert sensory information into appropriate behaviours,. Vision is
a common sense for locating ethologically relevant stimuli and guiding motor responses …

Natural vision is dynamic: as an animal moves, its visual input changes dramatically. How
can the visual system reliably extract local features from an input dominated by self …

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 …

Visual systems extract multiple features from a scene using parallel neural circuits.
Ultimately, the separate neural signals must come together to coherently influence action …

Animals must adapt sensory responses to an ever-changing environment for survival. Such
sensory modulation is especially critical in a threatening situation, in which animals often …

Romantic engagement can bias sensory perception. This 'love blindness' reflects a common
behavioural principle across organisms: favouring pursuit of a coveted reward over potential …