Sensory processing: The eyes have it

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 194 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.31 Author: Sian Lewis Direction selectivity is an important part of motion detection. Direction-selective cells have been found both in the retina and in their projection target, the superior colliculus (SC), but precisely where and how direction selectivity arises is not well understood. By optogenetically manipulating specific direction-selective retinal
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