Image processing in the fly brain

Research report (imported) 2014 - Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie

Authors
Borst, Alexander
Departments
Abteilung Schaltkreise - Information - Modelle
 
Summary
When flies perform their incredible aerobatic maneuvers, they rely, to a large extent, on visual cues. Accordingly, flies dedicate more than 50% of all their nerve cells to process the images coming from their large facet eyes. Thanks to the advent of sophisticated genetic methods available in the fruit fly Drosophila allowing for targeting and manipulating individual nerve cells, recent years have seen much progress in our understanding of the neural circuits involved. The results reveal astonishing parallels to the ones found in the mammalian retina.

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