Motion-sensitive neurons have long been studied in both the mammalian retina and the
insect optic lobe, yet striking similarities have become obvious only recently. Detailed …

Highlights•We describe recent advances in the field of visual processing in Drosophila.•We
present in detail the neuronal circuits underlying four visual modalities.•Motion vision …

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 …

When navigating in their environment, animals use visual motion cues as feedback signals
that are elicited by their own motion. Such signals are provided by wide-field neurons …

Behavioral strategies employed for chemotaxis have been described across phyla, but the
sensorimotor basis of this phenomenon has seldom been studied in naturalistic contexts …

Detecting the orientation and movement of edges in a scene is critical to visually guided
behaviors of many animals. What are the circuit algorithms that allow the brain to extract …

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 …

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 …

Many animals rely on visual figure–ground discrimination to aid in navigation, and to draw
attention to salient features like conspecifics or predators. Even figures that are similar in …

Many animals use visual signals to estimate motion. Canonical models suppose that
animals estimate motion by cross-correlating pairs of spatiotemporally separated visual …