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From this analysis, the researchers derived a rule governing DSGC-SAC connectivity. All SAC dendrites and DSGCs respond selectively to ("prefer") motion in some direction. The researchers found that DSGCs tend to receive more synapses from SAC dendrites with the opposite preferred direction, which is evidence for specificity of connections. In principle, a DSGC could indiscriminately receive synapses from all neighboring SAC dendrites, which generally encompass a diversity of preferred directions, but this is not the case. The rule of connectivity suggests that a DSGC "inherits" its direction selectivity from its inputs, since SACs make inhibitory (sign-inverting) synapses onto DSGCs.