Visuomotor transformations underlying hunting behavior in zebrafish

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 831-846

  Bianco, Isaac H ^a,b   Engert, Florian ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DANIO RERIO;

ANIMAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84932610401     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.042     Document Type: Article

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