Tama-kugel: Hardware and software for measuring direction, distance, and velocity of locomotion by insects

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-92

  Hedrick, Ann V ^a   Hisada, Mituhiko ^b   Mulloney, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Optical encoder

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT; OPTICAL BIOSENSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECTS; LOCOMOTION; OPTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34250769614     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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