Vision: EM-erging motion-detecting circuits.
How does the brain compare visual inputs over space and time to extract motion? Electron microscopic (EM) and molecular analyses reveal a new circuit architecture for motion processing in Drosophila. An offset in the weighting of synaptic connections and differential use of fast and slow nicotinic receptors suggests a mechanism that can implement spatiotemporal comparisons.
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Marion
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Silies
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: trc@stanford.edu.
Thomas R
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Clandinin
D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D009039:Motion Perception