Visual stabilization dynamics are enhanced by standing flight velocity

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 410-413

  Theobald, Jamie C ^a   Ringach, Dario L ^b   Frye, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical control; Insect vision; Perturbation; Velocity

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PERTURBATION; STABILIZATION; VELOCITY; VISUAL CUE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954096927     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0845     Document Type: Article

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