Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

The physiological basis for contrast opponency in motion computation in Drosophila

  • Giordano Ramos-Traslosheros,
  • Marion Silies

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24986-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The Drosophila visual system first computes motion in the dendrites of T4 and T5 neurons via a linear mechanism that uses ON and OFF information. Here, the authors show that the Tm9, Tm2, and CT1 neurons provide both ON and OFF information to direction-selective T5 cells in the OFF pathway.