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SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Bellido PT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3545807 | biostudies-other | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gonzalez-Bellido Paloma T PT Peng Hanchuan H Yang Jinzhu J Georgopoulos Apostolos P AP Olberg Robert M RM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121203 2
Intercepting a moving object requires prediction of its future location. This complex task has been solved by dragonflies, who intercept their prey in midair with a 95% success rate. In this study, we show that a group of 16 neurons, called target-selective descending neurons (TSDNs), code a population vector that reflects the direction of the target with high accuracy and reliability across 360°. The TSDN spatial (receptive field) and temporal (latency) properties matched the area of the retina ...[more]