Visual motion: dendritic integration makes sense of the world.
Flies use a system of specialised neurons to read the patterns of visual motion - optic flow - induced by the their movements. Recent experiments illustrate how the dendrites of these neurons reach out to assemble patterns of optic flow and encode them reliably.
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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology*; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception