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A sense of direction: going with the flow

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Humans and monkeys can judge their heading direction from the pattern of motion on the retina. The visual cortical area MST plays an essential role in making these judgements.

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Figure 1: A simple expansion flow field.
Figure 2: This is the same set of vectors as in Fig. 1, but each vector has had a horizontal rightward vector added.

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Cumming, B. A sense of direction: going with the flow. Nat Neurosci 1, 6–8 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/201

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