Infrared Imaging: A Motion Detection Circuit for Rattlesnake Thermal Vision.

Pit vipers detect moving warm-blooded prey with infrared receptors in their pit organs. Neurons in two brain nuclei extract the direction of prey motion by lateral inhibition circuits similar to those known from visual systems.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2019-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.043PMID 31163140
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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