Effects of light intensity and pattern contrast on the ability of the land crab, Cardisoma guanhumi, to separate optic flow-field components

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 895-904

  Johnson, Aaron P ^a,b,c   Barnes, W Jon P ^a   Macauley, Martin W S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer generated visual images; Crab; Optic flow; Optokinetic responses; Visual flow field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDISOMA GUANHUMI; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; EYE MOVEMENT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VISION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EYE MOVEMENTS; LIGHT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; ROTATION; VISION;

EID: 15944365453     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523804216091     Document Type: Article

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