Prey capture behavior evoked by simple visual stimuli in larval zebrafish

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Bianco, Isaac H ^a   Kampff, Adam R ^b   Engert, Florian ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Behavior; Binocular vision; Ocular vergence; Prey capture; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PREDATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 84856185910     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00101     Document Type: Article

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