ArticleBiology letters2019
Fruit flies increase attention to their frontal visual field during fast forward optic flow.
Article in Biology letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Multiple axes of visual system diversity in Ithomiini, an ecologically diverse tribe of mimetic butterflies.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Carbon dioxide and blood-feeding shift visual cue tracking during navigation inBiology letters · 2022Article
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- An Inexpensive, High-Precision, Modular Spherical Treadmill Setup Optimized forFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Ventral motion parallax enhances fruit fly steering to visual sideslip.Biology letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Fruit flies must compensate for the limited light gathered by the tiny facets of their eyes, and image motion during flight lowers light catch even further. Motion blur is especially problematic in fast regions of the visual field, perpendicular to forward motion, but flow fields also contain slower regions, less affected by blur. To test whether fruit flies shift their attention to predictably slower regions of a flow field, we placed flies in an arena simulating forward flight and measured responses to turning cues in different visual areas. We find that during fast forward flight, fruit flies respond more strongly to turning cues presented directly in front, and less strongly to cues presented to the sides, supporting the hypothesis that flying fruit flies shift visual attention to slower moving regions less affected by motion blur.
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