Modeling and measuring the visual detection of ecologically relevant motion by an Anolis lizard

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Pallus, Adam C ^a   Fleishman, Leo J ^a   Castonguay, Philip M ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anolis; Attention; Correlation detector; Motion detection; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449124550     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-009-0487-7     Document Type: Article

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