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 …

Detecting the direction of image motion is a fundamental component of visual computation,
essential for survival of the animal. However, at the level of individual photoreceptors, the …

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 algorithms and neural circuits that process spatio-temporal changes in luminance to
extract visual motion cues have been the focus of intense research. An influential model, the …

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 …

Many animals rely on vision to detect, locate, and track moving objects. In Drosophila
courtship, males primarily use visual cues to orient toward and follow females and to select …

Ant colonies with permanent division of labour between castes and highly distinct roles of
the sexes have been conceptualized to be superorganisms, but the cellular and molecular …

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 …