How neurons detect the direction of motion is a prime example of neural computation:
Motion vision is found in the visual systems of virtually all sighted animals, it is important for …

Originally a genetic model organism, the experimental use of Drosophila melanogaster has
grown to include quantitative behavioral analyses, sophisticated perturbations of neuronal …

The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

Topographic maps, the systematic spatial ordering of neurons by response tuning, are
common across species. In Drosophila, the lobula columnar (LC) neuron types project from …

The detection of visual motion enables sophisticated animal navigation, and studies on flies
have provided profound insights into the cellular and circuit bases of this neural …

To survive, animals must convert sensory information into appropriate behaviours,. Vision is
a common sense for locating ethologically relevant stimuli and guiding motor responses …

Deciphering how the brain regulates motor circuits to control complex behaviors is an
important, long-standing challenge in neuroscience. In the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, this …

Behavioral flexibility is critical to survival. Animals must adapt their behavioral responses
based on changes in the environmental context, internal state, or experience. Studies in …

An approaching predator and self-motion toward an object can generate similar looming
patterns on the retina, but these situations demand different rapid responses. How central …

Behavioral flexibility requires directing feedforward sensory information to appropriate
targets. In the superior colliculus, divergent outputs orchestrate different responses to visual …