Decision making and behavioral choice during predator avoidance

J Herberholz, GD Marquart - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2012 - frontiersin.org
One of the most important decisions animals have to make is how to respond to an attack
from a potential predator. The response must be prompt and appropriate to ensure survival …

The neuroethology of escape in crabs: from sensory ecology to neurons and back

JM Hemmi, D Tomsic - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
A major challenge in neurobiology is to understand how brains function in animals behaving
in the complexity of their natural environment. Progress will depend on our ability to correctly …

Visuo-motor transformations involved in the escape response to looming stimuli in the crab Neohelice (=Chasmagnathus) granulata

D Oliva, D Tomsic - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Escape responses to directly approaching predators represent one instance of an animal's
ability to avoid collision. Usually, such responses can be easily evoked in the laboratory …

Regionalization in the eye of the grapsid crab Neohelice granulata (=Chasmagnathus granulatus): variation of resolution and facet diameters

M Berón de Astrada, M Bengochea, V Medan… - Journal of Comparative …, 2012 - Springer
Crabs have panoramic compound eyes, which can show marked regional specializations of
visual acuity. These specializations are thought to be related to the particular features of the …

A looming-sensitive pathway responds to changes in the trajectory of object motion

GA McMillan, JR Gray - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Two identified locust neurons, the lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and its
postsynaptic partner, the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD), constitute …

Caracterización del receptor de glutamato tipo NMDA en el cangrejo Neohelice granulata y estudio de su rol en procesos de aprendizaje y memoria

Y Hepp - 2012 - bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar
En esta tesis se estudió la localización y dinámica de receptores glutamatérgicos tipo
NMDA (NMDARs), y su relación con la memoria, en el cangrejo Neohelice granulata …