Visual control of prey-capture flight in dragonflies

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• 作者：Robert M Olberg ^{olbergr@union.edu}
• 刊名：Current Opinion in Neurobiology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：18_09594388
• 类别：neu
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：22
• 期：2
• 页码：267-271
• 文件大小：445 K

摘要

Interacting with a moving object poses a computational problem for an animal's nervous system. This problem has been elegantly solved by the dragonfly, a formidable visual predator on flying insects. The dragonfly computes an interception flight trajectory and steers to maintain it during its prey-pursuit flight. This review summarizes current knowledge about pursuit behavior and neurons thought to control interception in the dragonfly. When understood, this system has the potential for explaining how a small group of neurons can control complex interactions with moving objects.