Binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling enables Drosophila hyperacute 3D vision.
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SUBMITTER: Kemppainen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8944591 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
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Binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling enables <i>Drosophila</i> hyperacute 3D vision.
Kemppainen Joni J Scales Ben B Razban Haghighi Keivan K Takalo Jouni J Mansour Neveen N McManus James J Leko Gabor G Saari Paulus P Hurcomb James J Antohi Andra A Suuronen Jussi-Petteri JP Blanchard Florence F Hardie Roger C RC Song Zhuoyi Z Hampton Mark M Eckermann Marina M Westermeier Fabian F Frohn Jasper J Hoekstra Hugo H Lee Chi-Hon CH Huttula Marko M Mokso Rajmund R Juusola Mikko M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220317 12
SignificanceTo move efficiently, animals must continuously work out their x,y,z positions with respect to real-world objects, and many animals have a pair of eyes to achieve this. How photoreceptors actively sample the eyes' optical image disparity is not understood because this fundamental information-limiting step has not been investigated in vivo over the eyes' whole sampling matrix. This integrative multiscale study will advance our current understanding of stereopsis from static image dispa ...[more]
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