Non-linear neuronal responses as an emergent property of afferent networks: A case study of the locust Lobula Giant Movement Detector

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Badia, Sergi Bermúdez I ^a   Bernardet, Ulysses ^a   Verschure, Paul F M J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS; ROBOTS;

CASE-STUDIES; EMERGENT PROPERTY; LINEAR OPERATIONS; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTOR NEURONS; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTORS; NEURONAL RESPONSE; NON LINEAR; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PROPERTY; SINGLE NEURON;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERNEURON; LOBULA GIANT MOVEMENT DETECTOR NEURON; LOCUST; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; ROBOTICS; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77950846675     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000701     Document Type: Article

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