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PLOS ONE
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164020
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- National Basic Research Programme of China [2015CB352006]
- Science Fund for Creative Research Group of China [61421064]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2013M542010, 2015T80788]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities/HUST [2016YXMS034, 2014TS015]
- Director Fund of WNLO
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Understanding information coding is important for resolving the functions of visual neural circuits. The motion vision system is a classic model for studying information coding as it contains a concise and complete information-processing circuit. In Drosophila, the axon terminals of motion-detection neurons (T4 and T5) project to the lobula plate, which comprises four regions that respond to the four cardinal directions of motion. The lobula plate thus represents a topographic map on a transverse plane. This enables us to study the coding of diagonal motion by investigating its response pattern. By using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, we found that the axon terminals of T4 and T5 cells in the lobula plate were activated during diagonal motion. Further experiments showed that the response to diagonal motion is distributed over the following two regions compared to the cardinal directions of motion-a diagonal motion selective response region and a non-selective response region-which overlap with the response regions of the two vector-correlated cardinal directions of motion. Interestingly, the sizes of the nonselective response regions are linearly correlated with the angle of the diagonal motion. These results revealed that the Drosophila visual system employs a composite coding for diagonal motion that includes both independent coding and vector decomposition coding.
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