New research provides insight
into the visual world of a crustacean
Date: July 16, 2018
Source: Society for Neuroscience
Crabs combine the input from
their two eyes early on in their brain's visual pathway to track a moving
object, finds new research published in JNeurosci. This study of adult
male crabs from Argentina's Atlantic coast provides insight into the visual
world of a crustacean.
The widely spaced eyes and visually
guided behaviors of the crab Neohelice granulata suggest this highly
social predator may compute visual parameters of moving targets by combining
input from both eyes, but it is unclear where and how the two sources of visual
information are merged and processed.
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