Distributed dendritic processing facilitates object detection: A computational analysis on the visual system of the fly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Hennig, Patrick ^a   Möller, Ralf ^a   Egelhaaf, Martin ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; FLY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; DIPTERA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RETINA; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 52449084980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003092     Document Type: Article

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