[Insect interneurons sensitive to polarized light].
Neurons responding with a rhythmic discharge to rotation of a polarization plane (frequency being 0.7 Hz) were found in the optic lobe of scarabaeids Geotrupes. Responses to a polarized light stimulus were compared with those evoked by light intensity modulation and with suspected responses to apparent rotatory movement of a filter. The polarization sensitivity of some observed neurons was about 2. The on-component of the response to polarization coincided with the horizontal position of the electric vector.
D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D007395:Interneurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
Interneĭrony, chuvstvitel'nye k poliarizovannomu svetu, u nasekomykh.