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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Broken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection.

Nathan Wu, Baohua Zhou, Margarida Agrochao, Damon A Clark

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 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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  3. Afterimages drive a shared visual motion-reversal illusion inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 authors.

Nathan Wu *Yale College, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID 0009-0008-3282-6348
Baohua Zhou *Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Margarida AgrochaoDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.
Damon A ClarkDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.ORCID 0000-0001-8487-700X

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
Dissecting the roles of timing in a canonical neural computationR01NS121773 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2024 to 2025
$684k
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01EY026555HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01NS121773NEI NIH HHS P30 EY026878NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026555NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS121773NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS121773
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our intuition suggests that when a movie is played in reverse, our perception of motion at each location in the reversed movie will be perfectly inverted compared to the original. This intuition is also reflected in classical theoretical and practical models of motion estimation, in which velocity flow fields invert when inputs are reversed in time. However, here we report that this symmetry of motion perception upon time reversal is broken in real visual systems. We designed a set of visual stimuli to investigate time reversal symmetry breaking in the fruit fly

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Motion PerceptionAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterNeural Networks, ComputerPhotic StimulationalgorithmDrosophilamotion detectionsymmetrysymmetry breaking

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PMID40048271
PMCPMC11912477

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