Spatial vision in insects is facilitated by shaping the dynamics of visual input through behavioural action

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Egelhaaf, Martin ^a   Boeddeker, Norbert ^a   Kern, Roland ^a   Kurtz, Rafael ^a   Lindemann, Jens P ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAZE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULATION; STEREOTYPY; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84871314870     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00108     Document Type: Review

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