The many facets of adaptation in fly visual motion processing.
Neuronal adaptation has been studied extensively in visual motion-sensitive neurons of the fly Calliphora vicina, a model system in which the computational principles of visual motion processing are amenable on a single-cell level. Evidenced by several recent papers, the original idea had to be dismissed that motion adaptation adjusts velocity coding to the current stimulus range by a simple parameter change in the motion detection scheme. In contrast, linear encoding of velocity modulations and total information rates might even go down in the course of adaptation. Thus it seems that rather than improving absolute velocity encoding motion adaptation might bring forward an efficient extraction of those features in the visual input signal that are most relevant for visually guided course control and obstacle avoidance.
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Rafael
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Department of Neurobiology; Bielefeld University; Bielefeld, Germany.
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