Spatiotemporal receptive field properties of a looming-sensitive neuron in solitarious and gregarious phases of the desert locust

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 779-792

  Rogers, Stephen M ^a   Harston, George W J ^a   Kilburn Toppin, Fleur ^a   Matheson, Thomas ^a,b   Burrows, Malcolm ^a   Gabbiani, Fabrizio ^d   Krapp, Holger G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; DESERT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HABITUATION; INSECT SWARM; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOCUST; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSE ORGANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 76649092944     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00855.2009     Document Type: Article

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