Visually elicited head rotation in pigeons (Columba livia)

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3329-3337

  Türke, Wolfram ^a   Nalbach, Hans Ortwin ^a,b   Kirschfeld, Kuno ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Proj Mgmt Grp at the Ger A   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Correlation model; Gaze stabilization; Optokinetic response; Pigeon; Visual motion perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030272857     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(96)00042-9     Document Type: Article

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