ArticleNature communications2019
A neuronal correlate of insect stereopsis.
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- Prior cueing affects the saccadic response to targets in the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Building egocentric models of local space from retinal input.Current biology : CB · 2024Review
- Stereopsis without correspondence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Enhancing LGMD-based model for collision prediction via binocular structure.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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- A computational model of stereoscopic prey capture in praying mantises.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Binocular mirror-symmetric microsaccadic sampling enablesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Mathematical study of neural feedback roles in small target motion detection.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2022Article
- The Role of Central Complex Neurons in Prey Detection and Tracking in the Freely Moving Praying Mantis (Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Article
- Binocular responsiveness of projection neurons of the praying mantis optic lobe in the frontal visual field.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
A puzzle for neuroscience-and robotics-is how insects achieve surprisingly complex behaviours with such tiny brains. One example is depth perception via binocular stereopsis in the praying mantis, a predatory insect. Praying mantids use stereopsis, the computation of distances from disparities between the two retinal images, to trigger a raptorial strike of their forelegs when prey is within reach. The neuronal basis of this ability is entirely unknown. Here we show the first evidence that individual neurons in the praying mantis brain are tuned to specific disparities and eccentricities, and thus locations in 3D-space. Like disparity-tuned cortical cells in vertebrates, the responses of these mantis neurons are consistent with linear summation of binocular inputs followed by an output nonlinearity. Our study not only proves the existence of disparity sensitive neurons in an insect brain, it also reveals feedback connections hitherto undiscovered in any animal species.
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