Vision: EM-erging motion-detecting circuits
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Marion Silies1, Thomas R Clandinin1
1Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|May 22, 2014
Abstract:
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.

