TrackFly: Virtual reality for a behavioral system analysis in free-flying fruit flies

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-117

  Fry, Steven N ^a,b   Rohrseitz, Nicola ^b   Straw, Andrew D ^c   Dickinson, Michael H ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Control; Drosophila; Flight; Insects; Tracking; Virtual reality; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLYING; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 42749083093     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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