Function of a fly motion-sensitive neuron matches eye movements during free flight.

Sensing is often implicitly assumed to be the passive acquisition of information. However, part of the sensory information is generated actively when animals move. For instance, humans shift their gaze actively in a sequence of saccades towards interesting locations in a scene. Likewise, many insect...

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Main Authors: Roland Kern, J H van Hateren, Christian Michaelis, Jens Peter Lindemann, Martin Egelhaaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-06-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1110907?pdf=render

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