Aneysis D. Gonzalez-Suarez

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Highlights • Neurons in Drosophila’s early visual system adapt to changes in contrast over time • Strong adaptation can occur quickly, on the timescale of neural responses • Contrast adaptation is heterogeneous across neuron types • Simulations show that contrast adaptation improves naturalistic motion estimation Summary In visual systems, neurons adapt both to the mean light level and to the range of light levels, or the contrast.