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 …

Different visual features of an object, such as its position and direction of motion, are
important elements for animal orientation, but the neural circuits extracting them are …

Motion in the visual world provides critical information to guide the behavior of sighted
animals. Furthermore, as visual motion estimation requires comparisons of signals across …

Understanding how activity patterns in specific neural circuits coordinate an animal's
behavior remains a key area of neuroscience research. Genetic tools and a brain of …

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 …

Visual motion detection is one of the most important computations performed by visual
circuits. Yet, we perceive vivid illusory motion in stationary, periodic luminance gradients that …

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 …

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 …

Visual systems can exploit spatial correlations in the visual scene by using retinotopy, the
organizing principle by which neighboring cells encode neighboring spatial locations …

Visual object fixation and figure-ground discrimination in Drosophila are robust behaviors
requiring sophisticated computation by the visual system, yet the neural substrates remain …