Object motion: a world view.
Moving objects are detected by virtue of their shifting image on the retina. But to know how objects are moving in the world, we must take into account the rotation of our eyes, as well as the rotation of our head. A recent paper describes neurons that carry out this computation.
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Psychology Department, The University of Chicago, 5848 South University Avenue, Green 314, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. bradley@uchicago.edu
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