Classic optical illusion leads to the discovery of critical neurons in zebrafish.

(Research Organization of Information and Systems) By exposing larval zebrafish to a well-known optical illusion, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and National Institute of Genetics have found a clever way to isolate key clusters of neurons critical to processing the direction of motion in the zebrafish's environment. The full results were published in the journal Neuron in September 2020.