In animal eyes, the detection of slow global image motion is crucial to preventing blurry vision. A new study reveals how a mammalian global motion detector achieves this through 'space-time wiring' at its dendrites.
Funding
Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature; G2397; BBSRC-BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL; BB/R014817/1
Optical Electrophysiology: Establishing fluorescence voltage imaging capability at Sussex Neuroscience; G2018; MRC-MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
NeuroVisEco - Zebrafish vision in its natural context: from natural scenes through retinal and central processing to behaviour; G1871; EUROPEAN UNION; 677687
A window into the fly brain: "dual imaging" of neural circuits involved in locomotor behaviour in Drosophila; G2180; MRC-MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; MC_PC_15071
Anisotropic retinal circuits for processing of colour and space in nature - Lister Institute Research Prize; G2503; LISTER INSTITUTE
Philip Leverhulme Prize - Biological Sciences; G2276; LEVERHULME TRUST; PLP-2017-005