Using optical flow to characterize sensory-motor interactions in a segment of the medicinal leech

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2283-2298

  Zoccolan, Davide ^a   Torre, Vincent ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Leech; Mechanosensory neurons; Motoneurons; Optical flow; Sensory motor interaction; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPRESSION; LEECH; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHEAR RATE;

EID: 0037088907     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-06-02283.2002     Document Type: Article

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