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Deconstructing a navigational neuron

Nature Neuroscience volume 7, pages 569–570 (2004)Cite this article

Flies show remarkable flight control, aided partly by motion-sensitive neurons in the visual ganglia. Haag and Borst now unravel the microcircuitry of some of these motion-analyzing cells, and suggest a mechanism for their receptive field tuning.

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Figure 1: A fly's eye is built from many single facets, each of them possessing its own lens and photoreceptors.

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