Visual motor computations in insects

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 679-696

  Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a   Zhang, Shaowu ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bee; Behavior; Fly; Navigation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLIGHT; FLYING; INSECT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VELOCITY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 3943107540     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144343     Document Type: Review

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