Alexandra M. Yarger

The paper shows that optic flow-processing interneurons in butterflies increase baseline spiking activity during wing flapping and phase-lock to the wing-beat cycle, suggesting suppression of self-generated visual motion signals.

This study shows that wing mechanosensation modulates optic-flow-sensitive descending neurons in butterflies by altering excitability and timing, not visual feature encoding.

The paper studies how dragonfly wings deform and how mechanosensors encode this information, showing that wing structure passively constrains deformation patterns to simplify sensing.