The results suggest that children with autism may be taking in and combining
more motion information than children without autism, says study coauthor Catherine Manning of the University of Oxford.
In discussions about their research results, which have just been published in the scientific journal Nature, both lead authors, Matt Maisak and Jürgen Haag, were very impressed with the «cleanly differentiated, yet highly ordered»
motion information within the brains of the fruit flies.
His invention of serial block - face scanning electron microscopy then revealed the wiring asymmetry between these inter-neurons and the retinal ganglion cells that
convey motion information to the brain.
In each pathway,
motion information is processed independently of one another and sorted according to its direction.
«To learn a language, some people prefer to read phrases aloud repeatedly — combining auditory and
motion information.
Others prefer to write phrases repeatedly — combining visual and
motion information,» Aiba explained.