Feature detection and orientation tuning in the Drosophila central complex

Johannes D. Seelig and Vivek Jayaraman ()
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Johannes D. Seelig: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA
Vivek Jayaraman: Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA

Nature, 2013, vol. 503, issue 7475, 262-266

Abstract: Two-photon calcium imaging experiments reveal that ring neurons in the Drosophila central complex represent visual features and show direction-selective orientation tuning, resembling simple cells in mammalian primary visual cortex; future fly studies may enhance our understanding of circuit computations underlying visually guided action selection.

Date: 2013
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