Discrimination of features in natural scenes by a dragonfly neuron

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 7141-7144

  Wiederman, Steven D ^a   O'Carroll, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HEMICORDULIA TAU; INSECT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SMALL TARGET MOTION DETECTOR NEURON; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSECTS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956322281     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0970-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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