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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 85 No. 2 February 2001, pp. 724-734
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society
1Lehrstuhl für Neurobiologie, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld; and 2Max-Planck-Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany
Krapp, Holger G.,
Roland Hengstenberg, and
Martin Egelhaaf.
Binocular Contributions to Optic Flow Processing in the Fly
Visual System. J. Neurophysiol. 85: 724-734, 2001. Integrating binocular motion information tunes
wide-field direction-selective neurons in the fly optic lobe to respond
preferentially to specific optic flow fields. This is shown by
measuring the local preferred directions (LPDs) and local motion
sensitivities (LMSs) at many positions within the receptive fields of
three types of anatomically identifiable lobula plate tangential
neurons: the three horizontal system (HS) neurons, the two centrifugal horizontal (CH) neurons, and three heterolateral connecting
elements. The latter impart to two of the HS and to both CH neurons a
sensitivity to motion from the contralateral visual field. Thus in two
HS neurons and both CH neurons, the response field comprises part of
the ipsi- and contralateral visual hemispheres. The distributions of
LPDs within the binocular response fields of each neuron show marked
similarities to the optic flow fields created by particular types of
self-movements of the fly. Based on the characteristic distributions of
local preferred directions and motion sensitivities within the response
fields, the functional role of the respective neurons in the context of
behaviorally relevant processing of visual wide-field motion is discussed.
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