Animal behaviour arises from computations in neuronal circuits, but our understanding of
these computations has been frustrated by the lack of detailed synaptic connection maps, or …

The extraction of directional motion information from changing retinal images is one of the
earliest and most important processing steps in any visual system. In the fly optic lobe, two …

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been used for decades as a genetic model for
unraveling mechanisms of development and behavior. In order to efficiently assign gene …

Glutamatergic neurons are abundant in the Drosophila central nervous system, but their
physiological effects are largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the effects of …

Motion detection is a fundamental neural computation performed by many sensory systems.
In the fly, local motion computation is thought to occur within the first two layers of the visual …

A compact genome and a tiny brain make Drosophila the prime model to understand the
neural substrate of behavior. The neurogenetic efforts to reveal neural circuits underlying …

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 …

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 …

Animals need attention to focus on one target amid alternative distracters. Dragonflies, for
example, capture flies in swarms comprising prey and conspecifics [1], a feat that requires …

Early stages of visual processing must capture complex, dynamic inputs. While peripheral
neurons often implement efficient encoding by exploiting natural stimulus statistics …