Gaby Maimon

TL;DR: It is found that, whereas neurons in visual areas fire irregularly, many cells in association and motor-like parietal regions show increasingly regular spike trains by comparison, suggesting that spiking dynamics may play different roles in different cortical areas and should not be assumed to arise from fundamentally irreducible noise sources.

TL;DR: It is found that visual neurons in Drosophila receive motor-related inputs during rapid flight turns, which echo the suppression of visual perception during rapid eye movements in primates, demonstrating common functional principles of sensorimotor processing across phyla.

TL;DR: It is found that single neurons in the macaque's lateral intraparietal area (LIP) exhibit gradual firing rate elevations that reach a consistent value—which may correspond to a threshold—at the time of proactive, but not reactive, arm movements.

TL;DR: It is argued that a set of motion-sensitive visual neurons regulate gaze-stabilizing head movements in Drosophila, and pervasive motor-related inputs to the visual neurons are found, which quantitatively silence their predicted visual responses to rotations around the relevant axis while preserving sensitivity around other axes.