Facilitation of dragonfly target-detecting neurons by slow moving features on continuous paths

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 1-29

  Dunbier, James R ^a   Wiederman, Steven D ^a   Shoemaker, Patrick A ^b   O'Carroll, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Tanner Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

EMD; Feature detector; Insect vision; Motion detection; Salient feature; Second order motion; Target tracking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR SMALL TARGET MOTION DETECTOR NERVE CELL 1; CENTRIFUGAL SMALL TARGET MOTION DETECTOR NERVE CELL 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAGONFLY; FACILITATION; FLYING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84867616253     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00079     Document Type: Article

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