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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2020

A Neural Representation of Naturalistic Motion-Guided Behavior in the Zebrafish Brain.

Tugce Yildizoglu, Clemens Riegler, James E Fitzgerald, Ruben Portugues

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Fly navigational responses exploit plume-specific odor motion and gradient cues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Optimization in Visual Motion Estimation.Annual review of vision science · 2024
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  8. Structural and Functional Organization of Visual Responses in the Inferior Olive of Larval Zebrafish.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  20. Whole-brain interactions underlying zebrafish behavior.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tugce YildizogluMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Research Group of Sensorimotor Control, Martinsried 82152, Germany.
Clemens RieglerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
James E FitzgeraldJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA. Electronic address: fitzgeraldj@janelia.hhmi.org.
Ruben PortuguesMax Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Research Group of Sensorimotor Control, Martinsried 82152, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich, Munich 80802, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich 80802, Germany. Electronic address: ruben.portugues@tum.de.

Funding

Zooming into the fish's brain-What is really going on! Connectomics analysis of larval zebrafish.U19NS104653 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI Randal Burns, Florian Engert · 2017 to 2026
$39.4M
Neural circuits in zebrafish: form, function and plasticityU01NS090449 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI CEPKO, CONSTANCE L, ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2014 to 2016
$5.2M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNINDS NIH HHS U01 NS090449NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All animals must transform ambiguous sensory data into successful behavior. This requires sensory representations that accurately reflect the statistics of natural stimuli and behavior. Multiple studies show that visual motion processing is tuned for accuracy under naturalistic conditions, but the sensorimotor circuits extracting these cues and implementing motion-guided behavior remain unclear. Here we show that the larval zebrafish retina extracts a diversity of naturalistic motion cues, and the retinorecipient pretectum organizes these cues around the elements of behavior. We find that higher-order motion stimuli, gliders, induce optomotor behavior matching expectations from natural scene analyses. We then image activity of retinal ganglion cell terminals and pretectal neurons. The retina exhibits direction-selective responses across glider stimuli, and anatomically clustered pretectal neurons respond with magnitudes matching behavior. Peripheral computations thus reflect natural input statistics, whereas central brain activity precisely codes information needed for behavior. This general principle could organize sensorimotor transformations across animal species.

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AnimalsBrainMotion PerceptionRetinal Ganglion CellsVisual PerceptionZebrafisharborization fieldsglider stimulimotion visionnaturalistic imagesoptomotor responsepretectumwholebrain imagingzebrafish

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PMID32386533
PMCPMC7314654

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