Definitions

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  • adjective Describing movement of the eye, head or body (especially of insects) that steadies the field of vision

Etymologies

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opto- +‎ motor

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Examples

  • Bernhard Hassenstein's quantitative behavioural analysis of a beetle's optomotor response promised to make brain functions understandable in terms of information theory.

    Bert Sakmann - Autobiography 1992

  • AAV-treated, isogenic wild type and uninjected control mice were evaluated for restoration of visual behavior using optomotor testing.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The strength of a visually guided behavior, the optomotor turning response, co-varies with synaptic-terminal volume oscillations of photoreceptor cells when elicited at low light levels.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Coturnix none@example.com 2010

  • Both rod and cone photoreceptors were preserved morphologically; visual functions tested by optomotor response and luminance threshold were significantly better than controls; vascular pathology including leakage and formation of vascular complexes was also dramatically reduced.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • Both rod and cone photoreceptors were preserved morphologically; visual functions tested by optomotor response and luminance threshold were significantly better than controls; vascular pathology including leakage and formation of vascular complexes was also dramatically reduced.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shaomei Wang et al. 2010

  • Sideslip force, longitudinal force, rolling moment, and pitching moment generated by tethered fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, were measured during optomotor reactions within an electronic flight simulator.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

  • Three of these mutants yielded high dunce-like optomotor responsiveness.

    Elites TV 2009

  • Visual afferences to flight steering muscles controlling optomotor responses of the fly

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

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