Invertebrate vision: peripheral adaptation to repeated object motion.
Visual systems adapt rapidly to objects moving repeatedly within the visual field, because such objects are likely irrelevant. In the crab, the neural switch for such adaptation has been found to take place at a surprisingly early stage of the visual processing pathway.
Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Box 593, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden. karin.nordstrom@neuro.uu.se
Karin
K
Nordström
Paloma T
PT
Gonzalez-Bellido
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D003386:Brachyura / Q000502:physiology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009899:Optic Lobe, Nonmammalian / Q000166:cytology*