Whole-field integration, not detailed analysis, is used by the crab optokinetic system to separate rotation and translation in optic flow

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 383-392

  Blanke, H ^a   Nalbach, H O ^a,b   Varju, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crab; Motion parallax; Optic flow; Optokinetic response; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030823802     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050123     Document Type: Article

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