A Chicken's Motion-Detection Microcircuit (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

A Chicken's Motion-Detection Microcircuit

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This model circuit (right) duplicates the anatomy of the chicken microcircuit studied in Ralf Wessel's WUSTL lab (left). The complexity of the neuron's response arises from feedback loops in the circuit.

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Ralf Wessel/WUSTL

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