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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2007

Robust coding of flow-field parameters by axo-axonal gap junctions between fly visual interneurons.

Hermann Cuntz, Juergen Haag, Friedrich Forstner, Idan Segev, Alexander Borst

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. An Array of Descending Visual Interneurons Encoding Self-Motion in Drosophila.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  13. Near-optimal decoding of transient stimuli from coupled neuronal subpopulations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  14. Dendritic end inhibition in large-field visual neurons of the fly.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
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  17. Robust coding of ego-motion in descending neurons of the fly.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2009
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  20. Electrical coupling of lobula plate tangential cells to a heterolateral motion-sensitive neuron in the fly.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2008
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Hermann CuntzWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom. h.cuntz@ucl.ac.uk
Juergen Haag
Friedrich Forstner
Idan Segev
Alexander Borst
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich · DEHebrew University of Jerusalem · ILUniversity College London · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex flight maneuvers require a sophisticated system to exploit the optic flow resulting from moving images of the environment projected onto the retina. In the fly's visual course control center, the lobula plate, 10 so-called vertical system (VS) cells are thought to match, with their complex receptive fields, the optic flow resulting from rotation around different body axes. However, signals of single VS cells are unreliable indicators of such optic flow parameters in the context of their noisy, texture-dependent input from local motion measurements. Here we propose an alternative encoding scheme based on network simulations of biophysically realistic compartmental models of VS cells. The simulations incorporate recent data about the highly selective connectivity between VS cells consisting of an electrical axo-axonal coupling between adjacent cells and a reciprocal inhibition between the most distant cells. We find that this particular wiring performs a linear interpolation between the output signals of VS cells, leading to a robust representation of the axis of rotation even in the presence of textureless patches of the visual surround.

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AnimalsAxonsComputer SimulationDipteraGap JunctionsInterneuronsModels, BiologicalRotationVisual FieldsVisual Pathways

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PMID17551009
PMCPMC1886000
OpenAlexW2037705308

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