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Fixate and stabilize: shall the twain meet?

A study reports that fixation and optomotor responses in Drosophila rely on parallel neural processing of position and motion information, but interact at the behavioral level.

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Figure 1: Different ways of being intermingled.

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Masson, G., Goffart, L. Fixate and stabilize: shall the twain meet?. Nat Neurosci 16, 663–664 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3411

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