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A neuronal circuitry for relative movement discrimination by the visual system of the fly

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Poggio,  T
Former Department Information Processing in Insects, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Reichardt,  W
Former Department Information Processing in Insects, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Hausen,  K
Former Department Information Processing in Insects, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Poggio, T., Reichardt, W., & Hausen, K. (1981). A neuronal circuitry for relative movement discrimination by the visual system of the fly. Die Naturwissenschaften, 68(9), 443-446. doi:10.1007/BF01047513.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-F0BF-D
Abstract
We propose the basic structure of a neuronal circuitry possibly underlying the detection of discontinuities in the optical flow by the visual system of the housefly. The main features of the circuitry are: binocular cells summate elementary movement detectors over a large visual field and inhibit each one of them; inhibition is of the shunting type, with an inhibitory equilibrium potential very near the resting potential. A specific model implementing our proposal accounts for all the behavioral data on relative movement discrimination, including the characteristic dynamics of the response.