Abstraction and Encoding of Sensory Information.

摘要

The research program was designed toward the functional/anatomical description of the neural movement detection system with the end product an insight into how behavior can be described in the information processing of known anatomical nerve networks. The research concentrated on the processes of reception by photoreceptors, and the processing of visual information by interneurons in the optic lobe, brain and thoracic ganglion. For the first time a system of movement detectors has been identified. There are possibly as few as 30 cells per animal which are command fibers for the control of flights. The horizontal and vertical movement detection systems are distinct anatomically, physiologically and behaviorally.