Wiring economy has successfully explained the individual placement of neurons in simple
nervous systems like that of Caenorhabditis elegans [1–3] and the locations of coarser …

Color and motion are used by many species to identify salient objects. They are processed
largely independently, but color contributes to motion processing in humans, for example …

Animals rely on dedicated sensory circuits to extract and encode environmental features.
How individual neurons integrate and translate these features into behavioral responses …

Background Activity-dependent modulation of sensory systems has been documented in
many organisms and is likely to be essential for appropriate processing of information during …

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 …

Animals have a remarkable ability to track dynamic sensory information. For example, the
nematode Caenorhabditis elegans can locate a diacetyl odor source across a 100,000-fold …

Recent experiments have shown that motion detection in Drosophila starts with splitting the
visual input into two parallel channels encoding brightness increments (ON) or decrements …

Many animals rely on vision to detect objects such as conspecifics, predators, and prey.
Hypercomplex cells found in feline cortex and small target motion detectors found in …

We can now measure the connectivity of every neuron in a neural circuit, but we are still
blind to other biological details, including the dynamical characteristics of each neuron. The …

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 …