Visual attention: a cell that focuses on one object at a time.
A new study has identified a remarkable neuron in the dragonfly brain that chooses and faithfully follows one and only one prey-like visual target, completely ignoring another, thereby demonstrating a form of competitive selection required for visual attention.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. frye@ucla.edu
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