Monitoring small objects against cluttered moving backgrounds is a huge challenge to future
robotic vision systems. As a source of inspiration, insects are quite apt at searching for mates …

Highlights•Crabs constantly adjust the speed and direction of escape based on visual
information.•Giant neurons convey visual information on the speed and direction of moving …

Discriminating targets moving against a cluttered background is a huge challenge, let alone
detecting a target as small as one or a few pixels and tracking it in flight. In the insect's visual …

A class of specialized neurons, called lobula plate tangential cells (LPTCs) has been shown
to respond strongly to wide-field motion. The classic model, elementary motion detector …

The synchronous detection of visual features of small-and wide-field moving targets in
complex dynamic environments has been a challenge in the field of moving target detection …

The Mushroom Bodies, a prominent and evolutionary conserved structure of the insect brain,
are known to be the support of olfactory memory. There is now evidence that this structure is …

When animals move through the world, their own movements generate widefield optic flow
across their eyes. In insects, such widefield motion is encoded by optic lobe neurons. These …

In the past decades, complex systems with impulsive effects and logical dynamics have
received much attention in both the natural and social sciences. This historical survey briefly …

Understanding information coding is important for resolving the functions of visual neural
circuits. The motion vision system is a classic model for studying information coding as it …

The study of insect navigation has been benefitting from both a rich history in ethology and
sensory physiology, and from the recent advances in neurobiology and neuroanatomy …