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The animals used in these experiments are able to maintain course by information about a relation between parts or states of their own body which is correlated to turns (“idiothetic” course control). If one makes the animal deviate from such an idiothetic course by exposing it to a suitably arranged visual stimulus, it shows a compensatory turn when the original situation is reestablished. It is shown that the idiothetic course control operates also in the presence of external orienting cues. Consequences for the interpretation of relevant data are discussed and a new hypothesis about the origin of menotactic light courses is suggested.
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Mittelstaedt-Burger, M.L. (1972). Idiothetic Course Control and Visual Orientation. In: Wehner, R. (eds) Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Anthropods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65477-0_39
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