ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2020
Visual motion sensitivity in descending neurons in the hoverfly.
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- Dual Receptive Fields Underlying Target and Wide-Field Motion Sensitivity in Looming-Sensitive Descending Neurons.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Impact of walking speed and motion adaptation on optokinetic nystagmus-like head movements in the blowfly Calliphora.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The impulse response of optic flow-sensitive descending neurons to roll m-sequences.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Facilitation of neural responses to targets moving against optic flow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Visual circuits in arthropod brains.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many animals use motion vision information to control dynamic behaviors. For example, flying insects must decide whether to pursue a prey or not, to avoid a predator, to maintain their current flight trajectory, or to land. The neural mechanisms underlying the computation of visual motion have been particularly well investigated in the fly optic lobes. However, the descending neurons, which connect the optic lobes with the motor command centers of the ventral nerve cord, remain less studied. To address this deficiency, we describe motion vision sensitive descending neurons in the hoverfly Eristalis tenax. We describe how the neurons can be identified based on their receptive field properties, and how they respond to moving targets, looming stimuli and to widefield optic flow. We discuss their similarities with previously published visual neurons, in the optic lobes and ventral nerve cord, and suggest that they can be classified as target-selective, looming sensitive and optic flow sensitive, based on these similarities. Our results highlight the importance of using several visual stimuli as the neurons can rarely be identified based on only one response characteristic. In addition, they provide an understanding of the neurophysiology of visual neurons that are likely to affect behavior.
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