Local motion detectors are required for the computation of expansion Flow-Fields

Biology Open

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1105-1108

  Schilling, Tabea ^a   Borst, Alexander ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Local motion detectors; Looming

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW; LUMINANCE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN;

EID: 84982811794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20466390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/bio.012690     Document Type: Article

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