Visual motion in animals. (neuroscience)

Date Submitted: 10/11/2004 08:53:16
Category: / Science & Technology / Biology
Length: 11 pages (3056 words)
Visual motion information plays a crucial part in the lives of animals and insects. It is essential in order to perform successful navigation, avoid predators and catch prey. An animal receives motion information all the time it perceives an object in its field of vision, this however is not the only source of motion information, motion stimuli are in fact processed all the time during self-motion. This produces a self-generated retinal flowfield, which gets continually …
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