Visual acuity for moving objects in first- and second-order neurons of the fly compound eye

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1487-1495

  Juusola, Mikko ^a,b   French, Andrew S ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPOUND EYE; FLY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030910425     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.3.1487     Document Type: Article

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