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The split view of motion

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In both fruitflies and vertebrates, signals from photoreceptor cells are immediately split into two opposing channels in the downstream neurons. This might facilitate the computation of visual motion. See Letter p.300

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Figure 1: Similarity between fly and vertebrate visual systems.

Cajal Legacy, Instituto Cajal (CSIC), Madrid

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  1. Chi-Hon Lee is in the Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. leechih@mail.nih.gov ,

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Lee, CH. The split view of motion. Nature 468, 178–179 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468178a

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