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ArticlePLoS biology2018

Multi-stability with ambiguous visual stimuli in Drosophila orientation behavior.

Franziska Toepfer, Reinhard Wolf, Martin Heisenberg

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Article in PLoS biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Quantitative Characterization of Output from the Directionally Selective Visual Interneuron H1 in the Grey Flesh FlyJournal of undergraduate neuroscience education : JUNE : a publication of FUN, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience · 2021
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  2. Perceptual rivalry across animal species.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Franziska ToepferRudolf Virchow Center, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
Reinhard WolfRudolf Virchow Center, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
Martin HeisenbergRudolf Virchow Center, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4462-8655
University of Würzburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is widely accepted for humans and higher animals that vision is an active process in which the organism interprets the stimulus. To find out whether this also holds for lower animals, we designed an ambiguous motion stimulus, which serves as something like a multi-stable perception paradigm in Drosophila behavior. Confronted with a uniform panoramic texture in a closed-loop situation in stationary flight, the flies adjust their yaw torque to stabilize their virtual self-rotation. To make the visual input ambiguous, we added a second texture. Both textures got a rotatory bias to move into opposite directions at a constant relative angular velocity. The results indicate that the fly now had three possible frames of reference for self-rotation: either of the two motion components as well as the integrated motion vector of the two. In this ambiguous stimulus situation, the flies generated a continuous sequence of behaviors, each one adjusted to one or another of the three references.

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalOrientation, SpatialPhotic StimulationAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterFemaleFlight, AnimalStochastic ProcessesVisual Perception

Identifiers

PMID29438378
PMCPMC5826666
OpenAlexW2785954456

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