ON THE FINE-STRUCTURE OF YAW TORQUE IN VISUAL FLIGHT ORIENTATION OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER
ON THE FINE-STRUCTURE OF YAW TORQUE IN VISUAL FLIGHT ORIENTATION OF DROSOPHILA-MELANOGASTER
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00611046
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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通讯作者:
WOLF, R
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作者:
HEISENBERG, M;WOLF, R
Yaw torque fluctuations of Drosophila in stationary flight at the torque meter in many cases represent meaningful behavior patterns. In the closed loop situation for rotations around the fly''s vertical axis Drosophila stabilizes any panorama by adjusting its optomotor balance.sbd.a presumably integrative directionally movement sensitive flight control mechanism. In this state of harmony with the environment Drosophila often performs active turns by means of body-saccades. These were recorded as torque spikes.sbd.an elementary motor pattern of typical size and time course. Their polarity and frequency were dependent upon visual stimulation. During a torque spike the fly did not respond to the visual stimulation caused by the relative displacement of the environment; an artificial displacement in the opposite direction, however, caused a fast vigorous turning response. This was attributed to a directionally selective efference copy of the torque spike motor pattern which suppressed the reafferent visual input. The efference copy also relieved the visual system from certain inhibitory interactions, which in larger flies had provided figure-ground discrimination. The asymmetry in the fly''s response to progressive and to regressive movement of small patterns was eliminated by the efference copy. Such information processing steps may be of minor importance during body-saccades. Optomotor balance in Drosophila is the basis of oriented flight. In closed loop experiments with one vertical black stripe the fly spends only part of its time keeping the stripe in its direction of flight (fixation). More often it stablized the stripe in other positions (non-fixation). Torque responses to the position of objects in Drosophila appeared to be centrally controlled. Various situations in which the fly favored fixation (anti-fixation) or non-fixation were described.