Collision detection as a model for sensory-motor integration

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-19

  Fotowat, Haleh ^a   Gabbiani, Fabrizio ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

DCMD; Escape behavior; LGMD; Looming; Neuroethology; Single neuron computation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LOCUST; LUMINANCE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; THREAT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ESCAPE REACTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959915643     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-061010-113632     Document Type: Article

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