Time to collision is signalled by neurons in the nucleus rotundus of pigeons

Nature

Volumn 356, Issue 6366, 1992, Pages 236-238

  Wang, Yongchang ^a   Frost, Barrie J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NUCLEUS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESCAPE REACTION; HEART RATE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTION PERCEPTION; MUSCLES; NEURONS; PIGEONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA;

EID: 0026545642     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/356236a0     Document Type: Article

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