Flying fruit flies correct for visual sideslip depending on relative speed of forward optic flow

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Carbrera, Stephanie ^a   Theobald, Jamie ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth cue; Drosophila; Optomotor response; Parallax; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; MOTION; MOTION PARALLAX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84879190267     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00076     Document Type: Article

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