Visual neuroscience: revealing the motion-detecting circuitry.
Molecular approaches in Drosophila that allow the removal of specific classes of neurons are breaking new ground in determining the neural implementation of a computational algorithm for visual motion detection.
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Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. cg23@cornell.edu
D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014795:Visual Pathways