Measuring and tracking eye movements of a behaving archer fish by real-time stereo vision

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-243

  Ben Simon, Avi ^a   Ben Shahar, Ohad ^a   Segev, Ronen ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Archer fish; Behavior; Eye movements; Reconstruction; Tracking; Video

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FISH; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ETHOLOGY; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FISHES; FIXATION, OCULAR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PERCIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350036101     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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