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. 2021 Oct 25;31(20):4596–4607.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.041

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Goal-directed rapid tuning of postural reflexes by visual feedback

(A) Left: in the context of gaze stabilization, visual feedback tunes down postural reflexes, thereby preventing body rotations. Right: in the context of saccades, we found no effect of visual feedback (Figures 6D and S4A).

(B and C) Schematic of potential circuit architectures by which visual feedback tunes postural reflexes within ventral nerve cord circuits. (B) Visual descending neurons (VDNs) may project to interneurons within VNC to tune sensitivity to postural reflexes. (C) VDNs directly connect to either motor neurons (MNs) or leg proprioceptive sensory neurons (SNs) to control leg placement.