The locust DCMD, a movement-detecting neurone tightly tuned to collision trajectories

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2209-2216

  Judge, Sarah J ^a   Rind, F Claire ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DCMD; Direction selective; Identified neurone; Locust; Locusta migratoria; Motion in depth; Movement detection; Visual system

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842415453     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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