Neurobiology of Sensory Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Primitive Vision Based on Sensing Change....Pages 1-16
Pupil Control in Compound Eyes: More Than One Mechanism in Moths....Pages 17-22
Early Visual Processing in the Compound Eye: Physiology and Pharmacology of the Retina-Lamina Projection in the Fly....Pages 23-42
Analysis of Sensory Spike Trains....Pages 43-51
Signal Coding and Sensory Processing in the Peripheral Retina of the Compound Eye....Pages 53-70
Dynamics of Second-Order Neurons of Cockroach Ocelli....Pages 71-84
Processing of Movement Information in the Fly’s Landing System: A Behavioral Analysis....Pages 85-95
Motion Sensitivity in Insect Vision: Roles and Neural Mechanisms....Pages 97-106
Response Behaviour of Elementary Movement Detectors in the Visual System of the Blowfly....Pages 107-122
Spatial Vision in a Flat World: Optical and Neural Adaptations in Arthropods....Pages 123-137
Search and Choice in Drosophila ....Pages 139-153
The Evolution of the Tiered Principal Retinae of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)....Pages 155-170
Developmental Studies on the Optic Lobe of Drosophila Melanogaster Using Structural Brain Mutants....Pages 171-194
Developmental, Genetic and Molecular Analyses of Lethal(1)Ogre, a Locus Affecting the Postembryonic Development of the Nervous System in Drosophila Melanogaster....Pages 195-201
Development and Fine Structure of the Nervous System of Lethal(1)Optic Ganglion Reduced Visual Mutants of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 203-218
Critical Developmental Phases in the Ontogeny of Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus During Prenatal Life....Pages 219-229
In Oculo Differentiation of Embryonic Neocortex into Retina in Adult Rat....Pages 231-239
Axonal Outgrowth and Process Placement of Sensory Lumbar Neurons in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans....Pages 241-265
Recent Progress in the Identification of Neurotransmitters used by Vertebrate and Invertebrate Photoreceptors....Pages 267-273
Colour Vision and Immunologically Identifiable Photoreceptor Subtypes....Pages 275-293
Chemical Neuroanatomy of the Insect Visual System....Pages 295-318
Insect Vision and Olfaction: Common Design Principles of Neuronal Organization....Pages 319-353
Identified Glomeruli in the Antennal Lobes of Insects: In Variance, Sexual Variation and Postembryonic Development....Pages 355-375
 Drosophila Chemoreceptors....Pages 377-385
The Antennal Glomerulus as a Functional Unit of Odor Coding in Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 387-396
Complex Chemical Messages in Drosophila ....Pages 397-409
The Isolation of Antennal Mutants and their use in Drosophila Olfactory Genetics....Pages 411-418
Isolation of Autosomal Behavioral Mutations in Drosophila ....Pages 419-426
Projections and Functional Implications of Labellar Neurons from Individual Sensilla of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 427-438
Cationic Acceptor Sites on the Labellar Chemosensory Neurons of Drosophila Melanogaster ....Pages 439-448
 Drosophila Homologs of Vertebrate Sodium Channel Genes....Pages 449-467
The Functional Organization of the Auditory Brainstem in the Mustache Bat and Mechanisms for Sound Localization....Pages 469-497
Auditory Habituation and Evoked Potentials in a Learning Response....Pages 499-506
Water Wave Analysis with the Lateral-Line System....Pages 507-518
Functional Roles of Mechanosensory Afferents in Sequential Motor Acts During Copulation in Male Crickets....Pages 519-530
Corrective Flight Steering in Locusts: Convergence of Extero- and Proprioceptive Inputs in Descending Deviation Detectors....Pages 531-554
Sensory Control of Local Reflex — Movements in Locusts....Pages 555-566
Nociceptive Microcircuitry in Dorsal Horn....Pages 567-579
Distribution and Innervation of Cuticular Sense Organs in the Scorpion, Heterometrus Fulvipes ....Pages 581-591
Neural Organization of the Sensory Appendages of the Whip Scorpion, Thelyphonus Indicus Stoliczka (Arachnida, Uropygi)....Pages 593-602
Back Matter....Pages 603-620