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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2022

Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection.

Aneysis D Gonzalez-Suarez, Jacob A Zavatone-Veth, Juyue Chen, Catherine A Matulis, Bara A Badwan, Damon A Clark

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Voltage to Calcium Transformation Enhances Direction Selectivity inThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Aneysis D Gonzalez-SuarezInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Jacob A Zavatone-VethDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Juyue ChenInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Catherine A MatulisDepartment of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Bara A BadwanSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Damon A ClarkInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: damon.clark@yale.edu.
Yale University · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Yale Core Grant for Vision ResearchP30EY026878 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI In-Jung Kim · 2016 to 2026
$7.1M
Integrating visual counterevidence to detect self-motion in a small visual circuitR01EY026555 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2016 to 2025
$4.0M
Dissecting the roles of timing in a canonical neural computationRF1NS121773 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2021 to 2021
$1.2M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY026878NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026555NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS121773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons integrate excitatory and inhibitory signals to produce their outputs, but the role of input timing in this integration remains poorly understood. Motion detection is a paradigmatic example of this integration, since theories of motion detection rely on different delays in visual signals. These delays allow circuits to compare scenes at different times to calculate the direction and speed of motion. Different motion detection circuits have different velocity sensitivity, but it remains untested how the response dynamics of individual cell types drive this tuning. Here, we sped up or slowed down specific neuron types in Drosophila's motion detection circuit by manipulating ion channel expression. Altering the dynamics of individual neuron types upstream of motion detectors increased their sensitivity to fast or slow visual motion, exposing distinct roles for excitatory and inhibitory dynamics in tuning directional signals, including a role for the amacrine cell CT1. A circuit model constrained by functional data and anatomy qualitatively reproduced the observed tuning changes. Overall, these results reveal how excitatory and inhibitory dynamics together tune a canonical circuit computation.

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Motion PerceptionAmacrine CellsMotionPhotic Stimulationdirection selectivityDrosophilamotion detectionneural dynamicssensory systemstimingvelocity tuningvision

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