Anatomical organization of retinotopic motion‐sensitive pathways in the optic lobes of flies

JK Douglass, NJ Strausfeld - Microscopy research and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Anatomical methods have identified conserved neuronal morphologies and synaptic
relationships among small‐field retinotopic neurons in insect optic lobes. These conserved …

Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: small-field retinotopic elements responding to motion are evolutionarily conserved across taxa

EK Buschbeck, NJ Strausfeld - Journal of Neuroscience, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
The Hassenstein–Reichardt autocorrelation model for motion computation was derived
originally from studies of optomotor turning reactions of beetles and further refined from …

Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: parallel direction-and non-direction-sensitive pathways between the medulla and lobula plate

JK Douglass, NJ Strausfeld - Journal of Neuroscience, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
The neural circuitry of motion processing in insects, as in primates, involves the segregation
of different types of visual information into parallel retinotopic pathways that subsequently …

Visual motion detection circuits in flies: peripheral motion computation by identified small-field retinotopic neurons

JK Douglass, NJ Strausfeld - Journal of Neuroscience, 1995 - Soc Neuroscience
Giant motion-sensitive tangential neurons in the lobula plate are thought to be cardinal
elements in the oculomotor pathways of flies. However, these large neurons do not …

The computational basis of an identified neuronal circuit for elementary motion detection in dipterous insects

CM Higgins, JK Douglass, NJ Strausfeld - Visual neuroscience, 2004 - cambridge.org
Based on comparative anatomical studies and electrophysiological experiments, we have
identified a conserved subset of neurons in the lamina, medulla, and lobula of dipterous …

Retinotopic pathways providing motion‐selective information to the lobula from peripheral elementary motion‐detecting circuits

JK Douglass, NJ Strausfeld - Journal of Comparative …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Recordings from afferent channels from the medulla supplying deep neuropils of the fly's
optic lobes reveal different filter properties among the three classes of afferent neurons …

Response properties of motion-sensitive visual interneurons in the lobula plate of Drosophila melanogaster

M Joesch, J Plett, A Borst, DF Reiff - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
The crystalline-like structure of the optic lobes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has
made them a model system for the study of neuronal cell-fate determination, axonal path …

The relevance of neural architecture to visual performance: phylogenetic conservation and variation in dipteran visual systems

EK Buschbeck, NJ Strausfeld - Journal of Comparative …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
In cyclorrhaphan flies, giant tangential neurons in the lobula plate are supplied by
isomorphic arrays of evolutionarily conserved achromatic elementary motion detecting …

Dendritic structure and receptive-field organization of optic flow processing interneurons in the fly

HG Krapp, B Hengstenberg… - Journal of …, 1998 - journals.physiology.org
Krapp, Holger G., Bärbel Hengstenberg, and Roland Hengstenberg. Dendritic structure
and receptive-field organization of optic flow processing interneurons in the fly. J …

Peripheral visual circuits functionally segregate motion and phototaxis behaviors in the fly

Y Zhu, A Nern, SL Zipursky, MA Frye - Current Biology, 2009 - cell.com
Like the mammalian visual cortex, the fly visual system is organized into retinotopic columns
[1, 2]. A widely accepted biophysical model for computing visual motion, the elementary …