Two-dimensional motion perception in flies

  • Authors:
  • A. Borst;M. Egelhaaf;H. S. Seung

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We study two-dimensional motion perception in flies using asemicircular visual stimulus. Measurements of both the H1-neuronand the optomotor response are consistent with a simple modelsupposing spatial integration of the outputs of correlation-typemotion detectors. In both experiment and model, there issubstantial H1 and horizontal (yaw) optomotor response to purelyvertical motion of the stimulus. We conclude that the fly'soptomotor response to a two-dimensional pattern, depending on itsstructure, may deviate considerably from the direction of patternmotion.