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Published June 12, 2013 | Published
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From Dendritic Compartments to Neuronal Networks: A Multilevel Analysis of Motion Vision

Abstract

Animals typically rely on vision to direct their locomotion through the environment. Flies, who move in three dimensions while in flight, have evolved the fastest visual system in the animal kingdom to help them stabilize their flight posture and trajectories (Autrum, 1958). Partly for this reason, they have been the subject of extensive research on the neuronal basis of motion vision, the component of visual function involved in detecting movement within a scene. Using a variety of techniques, including electrophysiology, genetic manipulation, and behavioral analysis, researchers have started to unravel the earliest stages of motion processing (Clark et al., 2011; Eichner et al., 2011). Visual motion processing in the fly begins with the elementary motion detectors (EMDs), which are units sensitive to one direction of motion over a small receptive field. The identities of the cells involved in this computation are under active research, and a complete picture has yet to emerge. For over four decades, however, the identity of one set of downstream cells that receive input from the EMDs has been known (Braitenberg, 1972). These cells, located in the lobula plate of the optic lobe of the fly, are called the horizontal system (HS) and vertical system (VS) cells.

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© 2013 the authors. Received April 17, 2013; revised May 10, 2013; accepted May 13, 2013. This work was supported by grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-10-1-0368) and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (both to Michael H. Dickinson). We thank Bettina Schnell for useful conversations and Michael H. Dickinson for comments on the manuscript.

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