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Direction selectivity starts early

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Disruption of retinal direction selectivity reveals both peripheral and central computations contributing to direction selectivity in mouse visual cortex. These mechanisms work together to better encode motion directions and speeds.

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Figure 1: Two forms of direction selectivity contributing to the cortical selectivity.

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