Asymmetric ON-OFF processing of visual motion cancels variability induced by the structure of natural scenes.

ABSTRACT: Animals detect motion using a variety of visual cues that reflect regularities in the natural world. Experiments in animals across phyla have shown that motion percepts incorporate both pairwise and triplet spatiotemporal correlations that could theoretically benefit motion computation. However, it remains unclear how visual systems assemble these cues to build accurate motion estimates. Here, we used systematic behavioral measurements of fruit fly motion perception to show how flies combine local pairwise and triplet correlations to reduce variability in motion estimates across natural scenes. By generating synthetic images with statistics controlled by maximum entropy distributions, we show that the triplet correlations are useful only when images have light-dark asymmetries that mimic n

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884396 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature