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Visual neuroscience: a moving story of neuromodulation
1Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA. vivek@janelia.hhmi.org
Current Biology : CB
|December 22, 2012
Abstract:
The visual neurons of many animals process sensory input differently depending on the animal's state of locomotion. Now, new work in Drosophila melanogaster shows that neuromodulatory neurons active during flight boost responses of neurons in the visual system.
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