Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Arthropods Symposium Held at the Department of Zoology, University of Zurich, March 6-9, 1972 - Wehner, Rüdiger.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1972)
Opening Remarks -- I. Anatomy of the Visual System -- 1. Periodic Structures and Structural Gradients in the Visual Ganglia of the Fly -- 2. Synaptology of the Lamina ganglionaris in the Fly -- 3. Some Interrelationships between the First and Second Synaptic Regions of the Fly's (Musca domestica) Visual System -- 4. Columns and Layers in the Second Synaptic Region of the Fly's Visual System: The Case for Two Superimposed Neuronal Archicetures -- 5. The Fine Structure of the Compound Eye of Formica polyctena - Functional Morphology of a Hymenopterean Eye -- 6. Measurements on the Arrangement of Ommatidial Structures in the Retina of Cataglyphis bicolor (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) -- 7. The Ultrastructure of the Photosensible Elements in the Eyes of Collembola and Their Orientation (Insecta) -- II. Optics of the Compound Eye -- 1. The Visual System of Musca: Studies on Optics, Structure and Function -- 2. Pupil and Pseudopupil in the Compound Eye of Drosophila -- 3. Directional Intensity Distribution in Single Ommatidia of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera -- 4. Pigment Migration and the Pupil of the Dioptric Apparatud in Superposition Eyes -- 5. Eye Movements in the Housefly Musca domestica -- III. Biochemistry of Visual Pigments -- 1. Photoreconversion of Invertebrate Visual Pigments -- 2. Metarhodopsin in Single Rhabdomeres of the Fly, Calliphora erythrocephala -- IV. Intensity - Dependent Reactions -- 1. The Discrimination of Light Intensities in the Honey Bee -- 2. Photopositive Reactions of Honey Bees to Circular Areas of Varying Sizes and Light Intensities -- 3. Screening Pigment and Visual Field of Single Retinula Cells of Calliphora -- 4. Orcadian Sensitivity Changes in the Median Eyes of the North African Scorpion, Androctonus australis -- 5. Dark Activation of the Stationary Flight of the Fruitfly Drosophila -- V. Wavelength - Dependent Reactions -- 1. Electrophysiological Studies on the Eyes of Diptera, Mecoptera and Hymenoptera -- 2. Wavelength-specific Behavioral Reactions in Drosophila melanogaster -- 3. A Preliminary Report on the Analysis of the Optomotor System of the Bee - Behavioral Studies with Spectral Lights -- 4. A Preliminary Report on the Analysis of the Optomotor System of the Honey Bee - Single Unit Recordings during Stimulation with Spectral Lights -- 5. Spectral Sensitivity and Wavelength Discrimination in Cataglyphis bicolor (Formicidae) -- 6. ERG of Formica polyctena and Selective Adaptation -- VI. Pattern Recognition -- 1. Pattern Modulation and Pattern Detection in the Visual System of Hymenoptera -- 2. Experiments on Pattern Discrimination in Honey Bees -- 3. A Qualitative Model for Pattern Discrimination in the Honey Bee -- 4. The Ability of Honey Bees to Generalise Visual Stimuli -- 5. First Steps in a Behavioral Analysis of Pattern Discrimination in Diptera -- 6. Intraaxonal Visual Responses from Visual Cells and Second-order Neurons of an Insect Retina -- 7. Ethometrical Investigations into the Spatial Interaction within the Visual System of Velia caprai (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) -- 8. Mechanisms of Orientation and Pattern Recognition -- 9. Observations on the Visual Reactions of Collembola -- VII. Visual Control of Orientation Patterns -- 1. Processing of Clues from the Moving Environment in the Drosophila Navigation System -- 2. Behavioral Diagnostics; a Way to Analyse Visual Mutants of Drosophila -- 3. Resultant Positioning between Optical and Kinesthetic Orientation in the Spider Agelena labyrinthica clerck -- 4. Idiothetic Course Control and Visual Orientation -- 5. The Relation of Astromenotactic and Anemomenotactic Orientation Mechanisms in Desert Ants, Cataglyphis bicolor (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) -- 6. The Significance of Different Eye Regions for Astromenotactic Orientation in Cataglyphis bicolor (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) -- 7. The Visual Orientation of Desert Ants, Cataglyphis bicolor, by Means of Terrestrial Clues -- 8. Distance Measuring as Influenced by Terrestrial Clues in Cataglyphis bicolor (Formicidae, Hymenoptera) -- VIII. Storage of Visual Information -- 1. The Time-Dependent Storing of Optical Information in the Honey Bee -- 2. Learning Experiments on the Use of Side - Specific Information in the Olfactory and Visual System in the Honey Bee (Apis mellifica) -- IX. Methods of Quantifying Behavioral Data -- 1. The Relationship between Difference in Stimuli and Choice Frequency in Training Experiments with the Honey Bee.
Keywords: Invertebrates; Medicine; Invertebrates; Biomedicine, general