... place. To investigate this, we recorded the motor behaviour of Cataglyphis velox ants navigating in a virtual reality setup and measured their lateral oscillations in response to various unfamiliar visual scenes under both closed-loop and open-loop conditions. In naturalistic-looking panorama, ants...

... stimuli, revealed that pigeons use motion parallax depth cues caused by head movements to modulate motor control. Motion parallax Visuo-motor control Size constancy Virtual reality Pigeons Pigeons and other avian species show flexible head movements compared with humans and other...

...Juha Nuutila; Anna E. Honkanen; Kyösti Heimonen; Matti Weckström ABSTRACT Using tethered American cockroaches walking on a trackball in a spherical virtual reality environment, we tested optomotor responses to horizontally moving black-and-white gratings of different vertical extent under six...

... whether a visual stimulus is attractive, aversive or neutral. It is, however, difficult to separate the relative contribution of nature versus nurture in experimental paradigms, especially for more complex visual parameters such as the shape of objects. We used a closed-loop virtual reality paradigm...

... of Biologists Ltd 2015 Summary: Freely flying butterflies use motion cues to estimate the proximity of targets. Parallax Vision Motion Flight Virtual reality Butterfly Virtually all animals possessing eyes are faced with the issue of how to reconstruct the three-dimensional layout...

... and 135 deg along the horizontal plane (green dashed lines). Note that the virtual view point of the bee is denoted by a white dot in panels B and C. Fig. 1. The physical and virtual reality setup for investigating the streamlining response in tethered honeybees. (A) (i) Bees were tethered...

... control stability bird flight insect flight flight simulator photogrammetry virtual reality biomechanics steppe eagle Aquila nipalensis While we may now claim a reasonable understanding of many mechanical and physiological aspects of animal flight control, we do not yet understand...

...C. Hölscher; A. Schnee; H. Dahmen; L. Setia; H. A. Mallot SUMMARY Virtual reality (VR) systems are useful tools that enable users to alter environmental settings and the location of landmarks in an accurate and fast way. Primates have been shown to be able to navigate in virtual environments...