Rats maintain an overhead binocular field at the expense of constant fusion

Nature

Volumn 498, Issue 7452, 2013, Pages 65-69

  Wallace, Damian J ^a   Greenberg, David S ^a   Sawinski, Juergen ^a   Rulla, Stefanie ^a   Notaro, Giuseppe ^a,b   Kerr, Jason N D ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center Tübingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; VISIBILITY; VISION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE; EYE MOVEMENT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; SENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; HEAD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; OPTIC DISK; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878697718     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12153     Document Type: Article

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