Processing of figure and background motion in the visual system of the fly

W. Reichardt, M. Egelhaaf, Ai-ke Guo
1989 Biological cybernetics  
The visual system of the fly is able to extract different types of global retinal motion patterns as may be induced on the eyes during different flight maneuvers and to use this information to control visual orientation. The mechanisms underlying these tasks were analyzed by a combination of quantitative behavioral experiments on tethered flying flies (Musca domestica) and model simulations using different conditions of oscillatory large-field motion and rela-
doi:10.1007/bf00200799 fatcat:eyjbq2hyevah5dzgimhzixjowi