ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2007
Characterisation of a blowfly male-specific neuron using behaviourally generated visual stimuli.
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- Direction Selective Neurons Responsive to Horizontal Motion in a Crab Reflect an Adaptation to Prevailing Movements in Flat Environments.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Generation and Evolution of Neural Cell Types and Circuits: Insights from the Drosophila Visual System.Annual review of genetics · 2017Review
- Anatomy of the lobula complex in the brain of the praying mantis compared to the lobula complexes of the locust and cockroach.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2017Article
- A network of visual motion-sensitive neurons for computing object position in an arthropod.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Article
- Spatial vision in insects is facilitated by shaping the dynamics of visual input through behavioral action.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2012Article
- Neuronal representation of visual motion and orientation in the fly medulla.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2012Article
- Neuronal encoding of object and distance information: a model simulation study on naturalistic optic flow processing.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2012Article
- Chasing behavior and optomotor following in free-flying male blowflies: flight performance and interactions of the underlying control systems.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2010Article
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Abstract
The pursuit system controlling chasing behaviour in male blowflies has to cope with extremely fast and dynamically changing visual input. An identified male-specific visual neuron called Male Lobula Giant 1 (MLG1) is presumably one major element of this pursuit system. Previous behavioural and modelling analyses have indicated that angular target size, retinal target position and target velocity are relevant input variables of the pursuit system. To investigate whether MLG1 specifically represents any of these visual parameters we obtained in vivo intracellular recordings while replaying optical stimuli that simulate the visual signals received by a male fly during chasing manoeuvres. On the basis of these naturalistic stimuli we find that MLG1 shows distinct direction sensitivity and is depolarised if the target motion contains an upward component. The responses of MLG1 are jointly determined by the retinal position, the speed and direction, and the duration of target motimotion. Coherence analysis reveals that although retinal target size and position are in some way inherent in the responses of MLG1, we find no confirmation of the hypothesis that MLG1 encodes any of these parameters exclusively.
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