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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Color vision extracts spectral information by comparing signals from photoreceptors with
different visual pigments. Such comparisons are encoded by color-opponent neurons that …

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

Understanding how the brain controls behaviour is undisputedly one of the grand goals of
neuroscience research, and the pursuit of this goal has a long tradition in insect …

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 …