Visual processing in the central bee brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 9987-9999

  Paulk, Angelique C ^a   Dacks, Andrew M ^b   Phillips Portillo, James ^b   Fellous, Jean Marc ^c   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OPTIC LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEES; BRAIN; COLOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68849090528     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1325-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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