Visual neuroscience: hypercomplex cells in the arthropod visual system.
Newly described visual interneurons in flies have sophisticated receptive field properties reminiscent of neurons in the mammalian visual cortex. The cells are well-suited to compute motion of conspecific females that male flies aerially intercept.
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Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. cg23@cornell.edu <cg
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009488:Neurosciences; D017956:Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways