Asymmetric retinal direction tuning predicts optokinetic eye movements across stimulus conditions

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Across species, the optokinetic reflex (OKR) stabilizes vision during self-motion. OKR occurs when ON direction-selective retinal ganglion cells (oDSGCs) detect slow, global image motion on the retina. How oDSGC activity is integrated centrally to generate behavior remains unknown. Here, we discover mechanisms that contribute to motion encoding in vertically-tuned oDSGCs and leverage these findings to empirically define signal transformation between retinal output and vertical OKR behavior. We d

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Across species, the optokinetic reflex (OKR) stabilizes vision during self-motion. OKR occurs when ON direction-selective retinal ganglion cells (oDSGCs) detect slow, global image motion on the retina. How oDSGC activity is integrated centrally to generate behavior remains unknown. Here, we discover mechanisms that contribute to motion encoding in vertically-tuned oDSGCs and leverage these findings to empirically define signal transformation between retinal output and vertical OKR behavior. We d