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Such is the brain's complexity that even small neural circuits contain hundreds of neurons making thousands of connections. Connectivity and optical analyses provide close-up views of two such circuits. See Articles p.168, p.175 & Letter p.212

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Figure 1: The mechanism of motion discrimination in the visual system1,2,3.

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  1. Richard H. Masland is in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.,

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Masland, R. Accurate maps of visual circuitry. Nature 500, 154–155 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500154a

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