… behaviors, whether and how tectal neurons respond to an object approaching on a collision
… of looming-sensitive neurons in the pigeon tectal layer 13, which sends looming information …

… of brainstem-projecting neurons in the deep layer of tectum, in … in front and to escape from
objects approaching from behind. … evoked responses in tectum to looming stimuli increase with …

… The tectofugal pathway in birds goes from the optic tectum … looming objects. It appears that
a population of telencephalic cells in pigeons responds to looming objects and their looming …

… neurons would be responsive to looming stimuli. On the other hand, the SC is considered as
a homologue of the optic tectum of … Since looming-sensitive neurons have been observed in …

… looming objects and whole-field motion simulating optic flow. They specifically responded to
looming objects, but their looming … pathway goes from the optic tectum (TeO) to the nucleus …

… background looming. Therefore, our results do not support the hypothesis that tectal neurons
… contrasting stimulus is consistent with the idea that object motion and not large field motion (…

… of a looming object, followed by a directed escape maneuver. While looming-sensitive neurons
… Through targeted laser ablations in the tectal neuropil, we showed that an intact tectum …

… that the optic tectum contains a spatial map of looming stimulus locations … of T3 neurons,
while TH6 neurons carry out the recognition of a looming stimulus based on converging tectal …

… responsive to looming visual stimuli that resemble objects approaching the … looming stimuli
detection in our model to the level of background neural noise. We made every tectal neuron …

… looming objects. The results we report do show such a preference and suggest that NI together
with tectum … from the ipsilateral tectal lobe, specifically the Type XIV tectal neurons ~Meek…