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Figure 1: A drawing by Cajal1 of neurons from the human cerebral cortex.
Figure 2: The possible organization of a direction-selective cell.

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Ferster, D. A sense of direction. Nature 392, 433–434 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/33005

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