Synaptic high-frequency jumping synchronises vision to high-speed behaviour
Neveen Mansour, Jouni Takalo, Joni Kemppainen, Alice D Bridges, HaDi MaBouDi, Ali Asgar Bohra, Kaja Anielska, Vera Vasas, Théo Robert, Bruce Yi Bu, Shashwat Shukla, Yiyin Zhou, Maike Kittelmann, Joke Ouwendijk, Judith Mantell, Matthew Lawson, Gonzalo de Polavieja, Elizabeth Duke, Aurel A Lazar, Paul · 2026
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Neveen Mansour and a large team published a neurobiology study in twenty twenty-six on how the housefly's eye keeps pace with its own aerobatics. During fast turns, vision must not lag behind motion. Recording directly from fly photoreceptors and their partner cells during saccade-like stimulation, the team measured information flow at record rates.
The synapse between the two cell types does something new: it jumps its transmission toward higher frequencies mid-saccade, stretching visual bandwidth to about a thousand hertz. That abolishes synaptic delay and quadruples the classical flicker limit. Flies responded to stimuli within thirteen to twenty milliseconds, before their photoreceptors even peaked. A biophysical model shows the sampling machinery co-adapted with the behavior it serves.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Neveen Mansour, Jouni Takalo, Joni Kemppainen, Alice D Bridges, HaDi MaBouDi, Ali Asgar Bohra, Kaja Anielska, Vera Vasas, Théo Robert, Bruce Yi Bu, Shashwat Shukla, Yiyin Zhou, Maike Kittelmann, Joke Ouwendijk, Judith Mantell, Matthew Lawson, Gonzalo de Polavieja, Elizabeth Duke, Aurel A Lazar, Paul |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 96 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |