Visual summation in night-flying sweat bees: A theoretical study

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2298-2309

  Theobald, Jamie Carroll ^a   Greiner, Birgit ^a   Wcislo, William T ^b   Warrant, Eric J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Apposition compound eyes; Halictid bees; Neural summation; Nocturnal vision; Noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; BLURRED VISION; BRIGHTNESS; DARK ADAPTATION; EYE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645026190     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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