A class of visual neurons with wide-field properties is required for local motion detection

YE Fisher, JCS Leong, K Sporar, MD Ketkar, DM Gohl… - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Visual motion cues are used by many animals to guide navigation across a wide range of
environments. Long-standing theoretical models have made predictions about the …

Neuronal circuits integrating visual motion information in Drosophila melanogaster

K Shinomiya, A Nern, IA Meinertzhagen, SM Plaza… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The detection of visual motion enables sophisticated animal navigation, and studies on flies
have provided profound insights into the cellular and circuit bases of this neural …

The emergence of directional selectivity in the visual motion pathway of Drosophila

JA Strother, ST Wu, AM Wong, A Nern, EM Rogers… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
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 …

Modular use of peripheral input channels tunes motion-detecting circuitry

M Silies, DM Gohl, YE Fisher, L Freifeld, DA Clark… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
In the visual system, peripheral processing circuits are often tuned to specific stimulus
features. How this selectivity arises and how these circuits are organized to inform specific …

Direct observation of ON and OFF pathways in the Drosophila visual system

JA Strother, A Nern, MB Reiser - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
Visual motion perception is critical to many animal behaviors, and flies have emerged as a
powerful model system for exploring this fundamental neural computation. Although …

Comprehensive characterization of the major presynaptic elements to the Drosophila OFF motion detector

E Serbe, M Meier, A Leonhardt, A Borst - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Estimating motion is a fundamental task for the visual system of sighted animals. In
Drosophila, direction-selective T4 and T5 cells respond to moving brightness increments …

Functional specialization of neural input elements to the Drosophila ON motion detector

G Ammer, A Leonhardt, A Bahl, BJ Dickson, A Borst - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Detecting the direction of visual movement is fundamental for every sighted animal in order
to navigate, avoid predators, or detect conspecifics. Algorithmic models of correlation-type …

Cholinergic circuits integrate neighboring visual signals in a Drosophila motion detection pathway

S Takemura, T Karuppudurai, CY Ting, Z Lu, CH Lee… - Current biology, 2011 - cell.com
Detecting motion is a feature of all advanced visual systems [1], nowhere more so than in
flying animals, like insects [2, 3]. In flies, an influential autocorrelation model for motion …

A common evolutionary origin for the ON- and OFF-edge motion detection pathways of the Drosophila visual system

K Shinomiya, S Takemura, PK Rivlin… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Synaptic circuits for identified behaviors in the Drosophila brain have typically been
considered from either a developmental or functional perspective without reference to how …

Sequential nonlinear filtering of local motion cues by global motion circuits

EL Barnhart, IE Wang, H Wei, C Desplan, TR Clandinin - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Many animals guide their movements using optic flow, the displacement of stationary objects
across the retina caused by self-motion. How do animals selectively synthesize a global …