Relating neuronal to behavioral performance: Variability of optomotor responses in the blowfly

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Rosner, Ronny ^a   Warzecha, Anne Kathrin ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALLIPHORIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; INTERNEURON; MODEL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTOMOTOR RESPONSE; PREDICTION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLY; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALIA; CALLIPHORA VICINA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80055112547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026886     Document Type: Article

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