Ganglion
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Your retinal
ganglion
cells notice that there is more white around the intersections because they are organized to increase contrast with lateral inhibition.
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The signals that are detected by the photoreceptors are transformed via various computations until finally, the layer of cells at the bottom, the
ganglion
cells, relay the information to the brain, where we see that as perception.
The amazing thing about this is that it's controlled by a really tiny set of neurons, about two dozen neurons that can produce a vast variety of different motor patterns, and the reason it can do this is that this little tiny
ganglion
in the crab is actually inundated by many, many neuromodulators.
Well it turns out it's these neuromodulators, just like the neuromodulators in that little tiny
ganglion
in the crabs.
So I really think that, as we learn more, it's going to turn out that the whole fly brain is just like a large version of this stomatogastric ganglion, and that's one of the reasons why it can do so much with so few neurons.
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