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Species-specific motion detectors

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A range of neuronal mechanisms can enable animals to detect the direction of visual motion. Computational models now indicate that a factor as simple as eye size might explain some of this diversity. See Article p.105

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  1. Thomas Euler and Tom Baden are at the Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.,

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  2. T.E. is also in the Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen.,

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  3. T.B. is also at the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.,

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