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Pathways in Dipteran Insects for Early Visual Motion Processing

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Motion Vision

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In insects, as in vertebrates, neuroanatomical, electrophysiological, and modelling studies have provided insights regarding identities and connections among neurones that accomplish elementary motion detection. These studies include intracellular recordings from identified wide-field neurones that collate local information about motion, intracellular recordings from identified, mainly non-spiking small-field neurones that are candidates for a cardinal role in motion detection, and comparative anatomical studies of retinotopic neurones that are evolutionarily conserved across taxa. Nevertheless, many important features of motion processing in insects have yet to be revealed. This review concentrates on two questions: what are the identities and relationships among neurones that participate in elementary motion detection? And, are there distinct functional classes of elementary motion detectors (EMDs) in insects?

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Douglass, J.K., Strausfeld, N.J. (2001). Pathways in Dipteran Insects for Early Visual Motion Processing. In: Zanker, J.M., Zeil, J. (eds) Motion Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56550-2_4

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