A tent, a pigeon house, and a pomegranate tree

Recent physiological findings revealed that about one-third of motion-sensitive neurons in the pigeon's pretectal nucleus encoded the acceleration of visual motion. Here we propose a microcircuit hypothesis, in which the slow adaptive depressions play a ...

Pigeon vestibular semicircular canal type II hair cells often exhibit voltage oscillations following current steps that depolarize the cell membrane from its resting potential. Currents active around the resting membrane potential and most likely ...

The transfer characteristics of the vestibuloocular reflex (VOR), and of the semicircular canal primary afferents (SCPAs) that drive it, have been studied in several species. In monkeys and cats, the dominant time constant describing horizontal VOR ...