Visual motion-detection circuits in flies: Parallel direction- and non- direction-sensitive pathways between the medulla and lobula plate

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 4551-4562

  Douglass, John K ^a   Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

bushy T cells; insects; motion computation; motion processing; parallel pathways; vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECT; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0029896426     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-15-04551.1996     Document Type: Article

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