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Structure and Function of the Peripheral Visual Pathway in Hymenopterans

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Neural Principles in Vision

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Sensory systems provide an animal with an appropriate internal representation of the outside world. To understand what this internal representation looks like the most straight forward strategy would be to unravel the neurophysiological mechanisms by which sensory information is processed. The visual systems of insects are favorable objects for such a neurophysiological approach. The positions viewed by each individual receptor cell can be readily defined according to the highly-ordered geometry of receptors within the compound eyes. Furthermore, in the peripheral visual systems of insects, the photoreceptor cells are well separated anatomically from the other classes of higher order neurons and are not included into a single retina as in vertebrates. Finally, insects contain four to five orders of magnitude fewer receptor cells than does man, although the highly developed visual system of a fly or a bee is capable of abstracting information on position, movement, contrast, spectral and spatial frequencies and electric vector of linearly polarized light from the complex visual world of the insect’s environment.

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