A biophysical mechanism for preferred direction enhancement in fly motion vision.

Seeing the direction of motion is essential for survival of all sighted animals. Consequently, nerve cells that respond to visual stimuli moving in one but not in the opposite direction, so-called 'direction-selective' neurons, are found abundantly. In general, direction selectivity can ar...

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Main Author: Alexander Borst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006240
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