Insect Vision: A Neuron that Anticipates an Object’s Path Mark A. Frye  Current Biology  Volume 27, Issue 19, Pages R1076-R1078 (October 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.049 Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Dynamic tuning properties of the CSTMD1 neuron. Small contrasting objects were presented on a computer display in front of the dragonfly. Top: target motion outside the receptive field (dashed line) is called a ‘primer’ and target motion inside the receptive field is called the ‘probe’. After the primer, spiking responses of the probe show a strong ‘hot spot’ (red) of increased object sensitivity directly in the path of the probe, flanked by inhibitory surround regions (blue). Middle: a primer causes the probe response to be more sensitive to object contrast, increasing the apparent saliency of a low contrast object. Bottom: a primer moving along one linear path increases the directional tuning of the probe response along the same direction. Current Biology 2017 27, R1076-R1078DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.049) Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions