Publication Date:
2004-08-18
Description:
Vision relies on constancy mechanisms. Yet, these are little understood, because they are difficult to investigate in freely moving organisms. One such mechanism, translation invariance, enables organisms to recognize visual patterns independent of the region of their visual field where they had originally seen them. Tethered flies (Drosophila melanogaster) in a flight simulator can recognize visual patterns. Because their eyes are fixed in space and patterns can be displayed in defined parts of their visual field, they can be tested for translation invariance. Here, we show that flies recognize patterns at retinal positions where the patterns had not been presented before.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tang, Shiming -- Wolf, Reinhard -- Xu, Shuping -- Heisenberg, Martin -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Aug 13;305(5686):1020-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Biophysics Academia Sinica, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, P.R. China. tang-shm@sohu.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310908" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Color Perception
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Conditioning (Psychology)
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Cues
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Drosophila melanogaster/*physiology
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Female
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Flight, Animal
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Learning
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Orientation
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*Pattern Recognition, Visual
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Retina/physiology
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Size Perception
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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