title: Motion detection: neuronal circuit meets theory.
abstract: Motion detection in fly vision has been investigated experimentally and theoretically for half of a century, yet mechanistic insights into the neuronal computation have only started to emerge. In a recent issue of Nature, two studies provide major insights into how motion direction is extracted from the image flow projected onto the retina.
authors.affiliation: Neural Circuit Laboratories, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yonehara
authors.forename: Botond
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Roska
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D063132:Connectome; D004330:Drosophila / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008954:Models, Biological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*