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Visual motion: dendritic integration makes sense of the world
1Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|January 16, 1999
Abstract:
Flies use a system of specialised neurons to read the patterns of visual motion - optic flow - induced by the their movements. Recent experiments illustrate how the dendrites of these neurons reach out to assemble patterns of optic flow and encode them reliably.