ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2017
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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Study on the characteristics of head and neck movements of geese walking in a straight line at different speeds.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- High-Frequency Local Field Potential Oscillations for Pigeons in Effective Turning.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Quantitative functional imaging of the pigeon brain: implications for the evolution of avian powered flight.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Visual versus visual-inertial guidance in hawks pursuing terrestrial targets.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Gap selection and steering during obstacle avoidance in pigeons.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Collective evolution learning model for vision-based collective motion with collision avoidance.PloS one · 2023Article
- Through Hawks' Eyes: Synthetically Reconstructing the Visual Field of a Bird in Flight.International journal of computer vision · 2023Article
- Grade-control outdoor turning flight of robo-pigeon with quantitative stimulus parameters.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2023Article
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- A songbird inhibits blinking behaviour in flight.Biology letters · 2020Article
- The Critical Role of Head Movements for Spatial Representation During Bumblebees Learning Flight.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Similar flight control principles operate across insect and vertebrate fliers. These principles indicate that robust solutions have evolved to meet complex behavioral challenges. Following from studies of visual and cervical feedback control of flight in insects, we investigate the role of head stabilization in providing feedback cues for controlling turning flight in pigeons. Based on previous observations that the eyes of pigeons remain at relatively fixed orientations within the head during flight, we test potential sensory control inputs derived from head and body movements during 90° aerial turns. We observe that periods of angular head stabilization alternate with rapid head repositioning movements (head saccades), and confirm that control of head motion is decoupled from aerodynamic and inertial forces acting on the bird's continuously rotating body during turning flapping flight. Visual cues inferred from head saccades correlate with changes in flight trajectory; whereas the magnitude of neck bending predicts angular changes in body position. The control of head motion to stabilize a pigeon's gaze may therefore facilitate extraction of important motion cues, in addition to offering mechanisms for controlling body and wing movements. Strong similarities between the sensory flight control of birds and insects may also inspire novel designs of robust controllers for human-engineered autonomous aerial vehicles.
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