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Visual Neurones for Tracking Moving Targets

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A CLASS of directionally selective movement detector1 recorded in the visual system of the privet hawk-moth seems designed in several respects to enable the moth to track a moving target. Although I have found no behavioural evidence that these moths can follow moving objects, the properties of the neurones will be described in the context of visual tracking, because similar neurones may be involved in the control of smooth-tracking eye movements in vertebrates.

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COLLETT, T. Visual Neurones for Tracking Moving Targets. Nature 232, 127–130 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232127a0

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