ArticlePloS one2016
Vision in Flies: Measuring the Attention Span.
Article in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Dragonfly Neurons Selectively Attend to Targets Within Natural Scenes.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Integrated information structure collapses with anesthetic loss of conscious arousal in Drosophila melanogaster.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Perceptual rivalry across animal species.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020Review
- A Target-Detecting Visual Neuron in the Dragonfly Locks on to Selectively Attended Targets.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Multi-stability with ambiguous visual stimuli in Drosophila orientation behavior.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Parallel encoding of recent visual experience and self-motion during navigation in Drosophila.Nature neuroscience · 2017Article
- Attention-like processes in insects.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Visual Attention in Flies-Dopamine in the Mushroom Bodies Mediates the After-Effect of Cueing.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
A visual stimulus at a particular location of the visual field may elicit a behavior while at the same time equally salient stimuli in other parts do not. This property of visual systems is known as selective visual attention (SVA). The animal is said to have a focus of attention (FoA) which it has shifted to a particular location. Visual attention normally involves an attention span at the location to which the FoA has been shifted. Here the attention span is measured in Drosophila. The fly is tethered and hence has its eyes fixed in space. It can shift its FoA internally. This shift is revealed using two simultaneous test stimuli with characteristic responses at their particular locations. In tethered flight a wild type fly keeps its FoA at a certain location for up to 4s. Flies with a mutation in the radish gene, that has been suggested to be involved in attention-like mechanisms, display a reduced attention span of only 1s.
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