Topic: self-motion estimation

Sensorimotor systems are inherently uncertain, either because of the physical nature of the sensory stimulus or because of noise within neural circuits. To curtail such limitations, sensorimotor systems combine information about the same event across different sensory sources to create robust internal representations for behavioral performance. Here we show that congruent multimodal self-movement signals are consistently found throughout populations of visual neurons, the lobula plate tangential cells (LPTCs). LPTCs monitor head and/or body rotations to support steering during locomotion1-3. W