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Flight Reflexes

Flight Reflexes is a neurobiological construct that denotes an innate, automatic sensorimotor response mechanism mediating aerial stabilization and directional control in flying organisms through rapid, subconscious neural feedback loops.

182

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11.6K

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378

Authors

167

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2017–2026

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182

The Central Nervous Control of Flight in A Locust

Donald M. Wilson · Journal of Experimental Biology · 1961 · 711 citations

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Organization of the subcortical system governing defence and flight reactions in the cat

A Molina, R. W. Hunsperger · The Journal of Physiology · 1962 · 377 citations · Full text

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Vision Guides Selection of Freeze or Flight Defense Strategies in Mice

Gioia De Franceschi, Tipok Vivattanasarn, Aman B. Saleem et al. · Current Biology · 2016 · 325 citations · Full text

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Flies Evade Looming Targets by Executing Rapid Visually Directed Banked Turns

Florian T. Muijres, Michael J. Elzinga, Johan M. Melis et al. · Science · 2014 · 318 citations

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Figure-ground discrimination by relative movement in the visual system of the fly

W. Reichardt, Tomaso Poggio · Biological Cybernetics · 1979 · 257 citations

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Authors

378

  1. MH
    Michael H. Dickinson

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    16 publications · 1.7K citations

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  2. BM
    Bernhard M�hl

    Saarland University, Germany

    6 publications · 214 citations

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  3. MH
    Martin Heisenberg

    University of Würzburg, Germany

    4 publications · 303 citations

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  4. RW
    R. W. Hunsperger

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    4 publications · 630 citations

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  5. KG
    K. G. Pearson

    University of Alberta, Canada

    4 publications · 189 citations

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Institutions

167

  1. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    11 h-index

    26 publications

    2.9K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

    Tübingen, Germany

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    7 h-index

    17 publications

    822 citations

  6. Saarland University

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    214 citations

  7. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    5 h-index

    14 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    330 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Comparative Physiology A

    28 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Experimental Biology

    15 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. Biological Cybernetics

    10 publications · 671 citations

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  4. Current Biology

    10 publications · 1K citations

    10

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  5. Nature

    8 publications · 401 citations

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