Responses of movement-sensitive visual interneurons to prey-like stimuli in the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola (Burmeister)

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 243-262

  Gonka, Mark D ^a   Laurie, Timothy J ^a   Prete, Frederick R ^a,b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b c/o Vision Tech Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Descending interneurons; Insect vision; Mantid; Movement detection; Praying mantis; Prey detection; Prey recognition; Sphodromantis lineola; Visual interneurons; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MANTODEA; MONOCULAR VISION; NERVE CORD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AMPHIBIA; INSECTA; MANTIDAE; MANTIS RELIGIOSA; MANTODEA; SPHODROMANTIS LINEOLA;

EID: 0033451940     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006626     Document Type: Article

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