... of object-tracking behavior, segregated by motion-detection circuitry. Feature detection Motion vision Visual behavior Tethered flight Fly flight Owing to robust behavioral reactions to salient objects by flying flies ( Reichardt and Wenking, 1969 ; Wehner, 1972 ), early work posited...

..., across a diverse range of flying insects, individual photoreceptor responses to changes in light intensity establish the sensitivity of the feature detection pathway, indicating later stages of processing are dedicated to feature tuning, tracking and selection. * Author for correspondence...