Visual motion: Dendritic integration makes sense of the world
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Flies use a system of specialised neurons to read the patterns of visual motion - optic flow - induced by the their movements. Recent experiments illustrate how the dendrites of these neurons reach out to assemble patterns of optic flow and encode them reliably.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999