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ArticleBiology letters2020

Ventral motion parallax enhances fruit fly steering to visual sideslip.

Carlos Ruiz, Jamie C Theobald

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Article in Biology letters, 2020. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sexually Dimorphic Visual Processing in the Yellow-Fever Mosquito,bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  2. Predation via motion parallax in one of two gleaning insects.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026
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  3. Phenomenal interface theory: a model for basal consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Carlos RuizDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
Jamie C TheobaldDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flies and other insects use incoherent motion (parallax) to the front and sides to measure distances and identify obstacles during translation. Although additional depth information could be drawn from below, there is no experimental proof that they use it. The finding that blowflies encode motion disparities in their ventral visual fields suggests this may be an important region for depth information. We used a virtual flight arena to measure fruit fly responses to optic flow. The stimuli appeared below (

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Motion PerceptionOptic FlowAnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila melanogasterFlight, AnimalMotionDrosophila melanogasterinsect visionoptic flowoptomotor responseparallax

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PMID32428415
PMCPMC7280038

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