Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Arthropods Symposium Held at the Department of Zoology, University of Zurich, March 6–9, 1972 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Wehner, Rüdiger. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1972.
Edición:1st ed. 1972.
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65477-0
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.