A taxonomy of different forms of visual motion detection and their underlying neural mechanisms

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 218-235

  Frost, Barrie J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Looming; Motion parallax; Object motion; Rotation; Self motion; Stereopsis; Taxonomy of motion; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77956051076     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314284     Document Type: Article

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