Topic: translational motion

Across species, many navigational spatial representations, including those of head direction and traveling direction, require the integration of changes in sensory information induced by self-motion. In Drosophila, connectomic analysis points to a variety of so-called LNO neurons as key inputs for this information to the central complex (CX), a navigational center of insect brains. Recent studies have reported that the responses of several of these neurons correlate with self-motion and with optic flow resulting from rotations and translations in 2D. However, flying animals, like bats and inse