Insect vision: emergence of pattern recognition from coarse encoding.
Neurogenetic tools of Drosophila research allow unique access to the neural circuitry underpinning visually guided behaviours. New research is highlighting how particular areas in the fly's central brain needed for pattern recognition provide a coarse visual encoding.
University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, John Maynard Smith Building, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK. Electronic address: a.wystrach@sussex.ac.uk.
Antoine
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Wystrach
University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, John Maynard Smith Building, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
Alex D M
ADM
Dewar
University of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, John Maynard Smith Building, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK.
Paul
P
Graham
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