TY  - JOUR
AB  - Raising the head temperature within a behaviourally relevant range has strong effects on the performance of an identified neuron, the H1 neuron, in the visual motion pathway of blowflies. The effect is seen as an increase in the mean amplitude of the responses to motion under both transient and steady-state conditions, a considerable decrease in the response latency and an improvement in the reliability of the responses to motion. These temperature-dependent effects are independent of whether the animal is exposed to transient temperature changes or is maintained continuously at the same temperature for its entire life. The changes in the neuronal response properties with temperature may be of immediate functional significance for the animal under its normal operating conditions. In particular, the decrease in latency and the improvement in the reliability with increasing temperature may be relevant for the fly when executing its extremely virtuosic flight manoeuvres.
DA  - 1999
KW  - Blowfly
KW  - Motion-sensitive neurone
KW  - Calliphora erythrocephala
KW  - Vision
KW  - Electrophysiology
KW  - Temperature
KW  - Insect
LA  - eng
IS  - 22
M2  - 3161
PY  - 1999
SN  - 0022-0949
SP  - 3161-3170
T2  - The journal of experimental biology
TI  - Temperature-dependence of neuronal performance in the motion pathway of the blowfly *Calliphora erythrocephala*
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-17734754
Y2  - 2024-11-21T21:16:32
ER  -