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Octopaminergic modulation of temporal frequency coding in an identified optic flow-processing interneuron.

This work addresses a general constraint in biological and technical systems: limited energy resources. Together with our previous account (Longden and Krapp, J Neurophysiol. 2009) it initiated studies worldwide on state-dependent visual information processing, (publications from Caltech, Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and resulted in talk invitations to five conferences within the last two years including International Conference of Invertebrate Vision, Sweden, International Society for Neuroethology Meeting, USA, and International Conference on Bioactive Amines, Germany. It led to a novel paradigm for research on energy-efficient information processing, with strong potential for power-efficient electric circuit design.