All organisms wishing to survive and reproduce must be able to respond adaptively to a
complex, changing world. Yet the computational power available is constrained by biology …

Drosophila melanogaster are a good system in which to understand the minimal
requirements for widespread visually guided behaviours such as navigation, due to their …

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Highlights•Insects offer experimental advantages for the study of basic elements of
cognition.•Insect behaviors suggest the use of sophisticated internal representations.• …

Background Many animals extract specific cues from rich visual scenes to guide appropriate
behaviors. Such cues include visual motion signals produced both by self-movement and by …

Sensory systems sequentially extract increasingly complex features. ON and OFF pathways,
for example, encode increases or decreases of a stimulus from a common input. This …

Understanding how the brain controls behaviour is undisputedly one of the grand goals of
neuroscience research, and the pursuit of this goal has a long tradition in insect …

Visual systems transduce, process and transmit light-dependent environmental cues.
Computation of visual features depends on photoreceptor neuron types (PR) present …

Many animals, including insects, are known to use visual landmarks to orient in their
environment. In Drosophila melanogaster, behavioural genetics studies have identified a …

The sensory tasks performed by the eye are diverse and complex. In Drosophila, the eye
performs motion detection for navigation as well as detection of the quality of light (color and …