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SUBMITTER: Shi X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5374021 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20170213 4
Detecting visual features in the environment, such as motion direction, is crucial for survival. The circuit mechanisms that give rise to direction selectivity in a major visual center, the superior colliculus (SC), are entirely unknown. We optogenetically isolate the retinal inputs that individual direction-selective SC neurons receive and find that they are already selective as a result of precisely converging inputs from similarly tuned retinal ganglion cells. The direction-selective retinal ...[more]