ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2017
High contrast sensitivity for visually guided flight control in bumblebees.
Article in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Testing Bottom-up Cuing Effects on Target Detection and Discrimination in Bumblebees.Journal of insect behavior · 2026Article
- Navigating in clutter: how bumblebees optimize flight behaviour through experience.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Optic flow based spatial vision in insects.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2023Review
- Spatial tuning of translational optic flow responses in hawkmoths of varying body size.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2022Article
- The role of spatial texture in visual control of bumblebee learning flights.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2018Article
- Spatial Encoding of Translational Optic Flow in Planar Scenes by Elementary Motion Detector Arrays.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Many insects rely on vision to find food, to return to their nest and to carefully control their flight between these two locations. The amount of information available to support these tasks is, in part, dictated by the spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity of their visual systems. Here, we investigate the absolute limits of these visual properties for visually guided position and speed control in Bombus terrestris. Our results indicate that the limit of spatial vision in the translational motion detection system of B. terrestris lies at 0.21 cycles deg
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