Egelhaaf Martin, Kern Roland
Lehrstuhl für Neurobiologie, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100131, Germany.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2002 Dec;12(6):699-706. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(02)00390-2.
Vision guides flight behaviour in numerous insects. Despite their small brain, insects easily outperform current man-made autonomous vehicles in many respects. Examples are the virtuosic chasing manoeuvres male flies perform as part of their mating behaviour and the ability of bees to assess, on the basis of visual motion cues, the distance travelled in a novel environment. Analyses at both the behavioural and neuronal levels are beginning to unveil reasons for such extraordinary capabilities of insects. One recipe for their success is the adaptation of visual information processing to the specific requirements of the behavioural tasks and to the specific spatiotemporal properties of the natural input.
视觉引导着众多昆虫的飞行行为。尽管昆虫的大脑很小，但它们在许多方面轻松超越了当前的人造自动驾驶车辆。例如，雄性苍蝇在求偶行为中所进行的精湛追逐动作，以及蜜蜂根据视觉运动线索评估在新环境中飞行距离的能力。在行为和神经元层面上的分析开始揭示昆虫具备这种非凡能力的原因。它们成功的一个秘诀是使视觉信息处理适应行为任务的特定要求以及自然输入的特定时空特性。
