Feature maps: How the insect visual system organizes information

Harsh Vashistha; Damon A Clark

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.051

Feature maps: How the insect visual system organizes information

Curr Biol. 2022 Aug 8;32(15):R847-R849. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.051.

Authors

Harsh Vashistha¹, Damon A Clark²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
² Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. Electronic address: damon.clark@yale.edu.

PMID: 35944487
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.051

Abstract

A new study explores how a population of neurons in the insect brain responds to different features of visual scenes and discovers an unusual topographic map that organizes the information they encode.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Brain Mapping*
Brain*
Insecta
Neurons

Grants and funding

R01 EY026555/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States