ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018
Integration of Small- and Wide-Field Visual Features in Target-Selective Descending Neurons of both Predatory and Nonpredatory Dipterans.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Dragonfly Neurons Selectively Attend to Targets Within Natural Scenes.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Facilitation of neural responses to targets moving against optic flow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Visual motion sensitivity in descending neurons in the hoverfly.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
- Image statistics of the environment surrounding freely behaving hoverflies.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
For many animals, target motion carries high ecological significance as this may be generated by a predator, prey, or potential mate. Indeed, animals whose survival depends on early target detection are often equipped with a sharply tuned visual system, yielding robust performance in challenging conditions. For example, many fast-flying insects use visual cues for identifying targets, such as prey (e.g., predatory dragonflies and robberflies) or conspecifics (e.g., nonpredatory hoverflies), and can often do so against self-generated background optic flow. Supporting these behaviors, the optic lobes of insects that pursue targets harbor neurons that respond robustly to the motion of small moving objects, even when displayed against syn-directional background clutter. However, in diptera, the encoding of target information by the descending neurons, which are more directly involved in generating the behavioral output, has received less attention. We characterized target-selective neurons by recording in the ventral nerve cord of male and female predatory
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