Insect brains use image interpolation mechanisms to recognise rotated objects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Dyer, Adrian G ^a,b   Vuong, Quoc C ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; ANIMAL; BEE; BRAIN; HUMAN; INSECT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; HUMANS; INSECTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149327132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004086     Document Type: Article

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