How reliably does a neuron in the visual motion pathway of the fly encode behaviourally relevant information?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1365-1374

  Warzecha, Anne Kathrin ^a,b   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lucilia cuprina; Neural code; Reliability; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIPTERA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030861839     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01491.x     Document Type: Article

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