A spatiotemporal white noise analysis of photoreceptor responses to UV and green light in the dragonfly median ocellus

Journal of General Physiology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 481-497

  Van Kleef, Joshua ^a   James, Andrew Charles ^a   Stange, Gert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LIGHT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTORECEPTOR POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECTS; LIGHT; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTORS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VISION;

EID: 27644582146     PISSN: 00221295     EISSN: 00221295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.200509319     Document Type: Article

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