Visual Pattern Recognition in Drosophila Is Invariant for Retinal Position Export

@article{citeulike:3380972, abstract = {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. 10.1126/science.1099839}, author = {Tang, Shiming and Wolf, Reinhard and Xu, Shuping and Heisenberg, Martin}, citeulike-article-id = {3380972}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099839}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/305/5686/1020}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15310908}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15310908}, day = {13}, doi = {10.1126/science.1099839}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {drosophila, flightsimulator, pattern, vision}, month = {August}, number = {5686}, pages = {1020--1022}, posted-at = {2008-10-07 04:20:43}, priority = {3}, title = {Visual Pattern Recognition in Drosophila Is Invariant for Retinal Position}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099839}, volume = {305}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3380972 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3380972 N2 - 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. 10.1126/science.1099839 IS - 5686 JF - Science EP - 1022 TI - Visual Pattern Recognition in Drosophila Is Invariant for Retinal Position VL - 305 SP - 1020 KW - drosophila KW - flightsimulator KW - pattern KW - vision AU - Tang, Shiming AU - Wolf, Reinhard AU - Xu, Shuping AU - Heisenberg, Martin PY - 2004/08/13/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1099839 ER -