Form vision in the insect dorsal ocelli: An anatomical and optical analysis of the Locust Ocelli

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1382-1393

  Berry, Richard P ^a   Warrant, Eric J ^b   Stange, Gert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acuity; Insect; Ocelli; Optics; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; LENS; LOCUST; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; VISION;

ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34047271076     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.01.020     Document Type: Article

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