VISUAL-PATTERN RECOGNITION IN DROSOPHILA INVOLVES RETINOTOPIC MATCHING
VISUAL-PATTERN RECOGNITION IN DROSOPHILA INVOLVES RETINOTOPIC MATCHING
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DOI：
10.1038/365751a0
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发表时间：
1993-10-21
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
HEISENBERG, M
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作者：
DILL, M;WOLF, R;HEISENBERG, M
蜜蜂记住花朵的形状，并在觅食过程中由视觉地标引导1，2。昆虫如何识别视觉模式还知之甚少。实验表明，他们试图将输入的视觉模式与先前存储的记忆图像2-7进行视网膜定位匹配。但蜜蜂可以根据个别的图案参数进行调节，如轮廓的方向、颜色或大小2、8-11。这些结果和其他结果很难用简单的模板匹配来协调。在这种调查中，观察到自由活动的动物；因此，它们的行为和视觉输入并不为人所熟知。大多数情况下，加工策略是从刺激设计中推断出来的。我们在飞行模拟器中研究了系绳果蝇的视觉模式识别，这里报告说，果蝇将视觉图像存储在固定的视网膜位置，或与其一起存储，并且只能从那里检索它们。位置不变性是公认的人类模式识别的属性，但在昆虫中可能并不存在。
HONEYBEES remember the shapes of flowers and are guided by visual landmarks on their foraging trips1,2. How insects recognize visual patterns is poorly understood. Experiments suggest that they try to match retinotopically the incoming visual pattern with a previously stored memory image2-7. But bees can be conditioned to individual pattern parameters such as orientation of contours, colour or size2,8-11. These and other results are difficult to reconcile with simple template matching. In such investigations, freely moving animals are observed; their behaviour and visual input, therefore, are not well known. Mostly, processing strategies are inferred from stimulus design. We have studied visual pattern recognition with tethered flies (Drosophila melanogaster) in a flight simulator and report here that flies store visual images at, or together with, fixed retinal positions and can retrieve them from there only5. Position invariance, an acknowledged property of human pattern recognition, may no exist as a primary mechanism in insects.