A method for recording behavior and multineuronal CNS activity from tethered insects flying in virtual space

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-223

  Gray, John R ^a,b   Pawlowski, Vincent ^a   Willis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flight simulator; Insect; Multimodal stimuli; Multineuronal recording; Neuroethology; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; ETHOLOGY; FLYING; FORELIMB; GANGLION; INSECT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VENTRAL ROOT; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MANDUCA; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; VISION;

EID: 0037201954     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00223-6     Document Type: Article

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