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1.  The ecdysial growth of cercal filiform hairs was investigated in the cricketGryllus bimaculatus. The length of hairs varied from 40 to 500 m in the 1st, from 40 to 650 m in the 3rd and from 30 to 800 m in the 5th instar nymphs (Fig. 1). Hemimetabolous development causes both hair growth and the appearance of new hairs at each ecdysis (Figs. 2, 3). The newly acquired hairs were shorter than 200 m in every case (Fig. 4).
2.  Velocity thresholds of cercal sensory interneurons (CSIs) to sinusoidal air-currents were measured in 3rd instar nymphs (Fig. 5 A, B, C). CSIs 8-1 (medial giant interneuron: MGI) and 9-1 (lateral giant interneuron: LGI) showed threshold curves of acceleration sensitivity similar to those in adults. The thresholds for CSIs 8-1 and 9-1 were on the average higher in nymphs than in adults. The threshold curves for the two velocity-sensitive CSIs 10-2 and 10-3 were similar for nymphs and adults.
3.  Velocity thresholds of cercal filiform sensilla were measured in 3rd instar nymphs (Fig. 6). In spite of the small size of nymphal hairs, the most sensitive ones showed the same sensitivity as did the long 1000 m hairs of the adult.
4.  The filiform hairs in 3rd instar nymphs were supported by a weaker spring than in adults (Fig. 7). Relative stiffness was about 50% of that in the long hairs in adults, but not much different than that in the short hairs.
5.  Based on a theoretical estimation of hair motion, the threshold angle of a filiform sensillum in the 3rd instar nymph was calculated (Fig. 9). Threshold angles of the long sensilla seemed to be unchanged throughout hemimetabolous development.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of the late professor Hiroshi Ikeda, Biological Institute, Faculty of General Education, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan  相似文献   

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1.  We tested the long-standing hypothesis that female frogs are attracted to the sound of a chorus of conspecific males from a distance. We studied the barking treefrog (Hyla gratiosa) because the location of choruses is unpredictable; thus, chorus sound indicates the presence of conspecific males as well as the location of a suitable breeding site.
2.  We measured the sound pressure level (SPL in dB re 20 Pa) in the 500 Hz octave band at various distances from choruses. The primary spectral peak in the advertisement call of this species is 400–500 Hz.
3.  The pattern of chorus sound attenuation in the 500 Hz band at two different sites was very similar and generally followed the pattern expected from geometrical spreading from a point source (Fig. 3). At one of the sites the SPL measured near ground level was always higher than that at a point 1 m above the ground (Fig. 3).
4.  Spectral analyses of the chorus sound at different distances showed that the low-frequency spectral peak in the range of 400–500 Hz was a prominent component, especially at 80–160 m (Figs. 1, 4). Amplitude peaks that corresponded to individual calls ofH. gratiosa and other species were also evident in oscillograms of recordings made at 160 m (Fig. 1).
5.  Gravid females oriented and moved toward a source of conspecific chorus sounds (originally recorded at 160 m from the pond) played back at 38–40 dB SPL in the 500 Hz octave band (Fig. 1, Table 1). Background noise levels were 43–47 dB SPL (C-weighted) and 24–25 dB SPL in the 500 Hz octave band.
6.  In a two-stimulus, choice experiment, females ofH. gratiosa always chose the source of a mixed chorus (H. gratiosa andH. cinerea) sound with conspecific males to a source of a pure chorus sound ofH. cinerea (Fig. 2, Table 2).
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1.  The cochlea of the horseshoe bat,Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, was frequency mapped by exposing for 30 min to one or two continuous pure tones of intensities between 70 and 110 dB SPL. The evaluation was made by differentiating between normal and swollen nuclei of the outer hair cells (OHC) of the organ of Corti and by measuring the diameter of the nuclei of the OHC.
2.  In control animals the radial diameter of the OHC nuclei varies systematically from a mean of 2.85 m at the base to 3.2 um at the apex (Fig. 1).
3.  All frequencies used for exposure were normalized to the resting frequency (FR), which is the frequency of the pure tone component of the orientation sound in a non-flying bat. The individual FR lay between 82.6 and 83.3 kHz.
4.  For analysing the small frequencies between 83.0 to 86.0 kHz in which relevant echoes occur, 3.15 mm length of the basilar membrane is used, about the same length as for the octaves from FR/4 to FR/2 (2.85 mm) and from FR/2 to FR (3.2 mm) (Fig. Ca, b).
5.  The discontinuity of the mechanical data at 4.5 mm of the length of the basilar membrane (part I of this paper) coincides with FR and the less pronounced discontinuity at 7.8 mm coincides with FR/2.
6.  Location and mechanism of the auditory filter are discussed.
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1.  The activity of tympanal high- and low-frequency receptors in the migratory locustLocusta migratoria was recorded with glass capillary microelectrodes, and Lucifer Yellow was then injected through the microelectrode to reveal the cells' metathoracic projections.
2.  A photodetector device was used to monitor the abdominal respiratory movements, which caused clearly visible deflections of the tympanal membrane.
3.  The auditory receptors respond not only to sound stimuli but also to the respiratory movements; these phasic (Figs. 1–3) or tonic (Fig. 4) responses are especially pronounced during the inspiration and expiration movements, and less so during the constriction phases.
4.  The magnitude of the response to sound depends on the phase of the stimulus with respect to the respiratory movements. At certain phases sound elicits no response at all (Fig. 5).
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Coxal hair-plate sensilla in the spider Cupiennius salei are described with respect to their innervation, central projection pattern, electrical response to mechanical stimulation, and putative behavioral function.
1.  Hair plates, each comprising 25–70 hairs, are situated on the ventrolateral leg coxae close to the prosomal joint; during coxal movements they are deflected by the bulging joint membrane. Each plate hair is innervated by one sensory cell.
2.  Threshold sensitivity lies at 0.5° to 1° of hair deflection. Only distalward deflection excites. During maintained deflections the spike rate declines slowly. These hairs differ from hair sensilla of insects in that we measure no standing potential, nor do we measure a receptor potential accompanying a mechanical stimulus.
3.  The central projection areas of both hair plates are limited to neuropil of the ipsilateral neuromere.
4.  Natural stimulus situation and the spike response to maintained deflection suggest that these hairs are used in proprioception and graviception. Yet behavioral changes following selective hair-plate ablations are not very pronounced. Unilateral removal of hair-plates produced significant increases in average body height in 7 of 10 animals, while the angular orientation of the long body axis with respect to gravity remained unchanged after hair-plate removal.
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1.  Non-visual sensory systems are likely to be important in antarctic fish since these fish inhabit an area where low light levels occur for long periods. This study was undertaken to examine the suitability of the lateral line system for prey detection.
2.  Recordings were made from afferent fibres of the anterior lateral line in the antarctic fishPagothenia borchgrevinki.
3.  A vibrating probe was used to stimulate the lateral line at a range of frequencies between 10 and 100 Hz.
4.  Most units responded best at a stimulus frequency of 40 Hz. Below the best frequency the response typically declined steeply and at higher frequencies it was usually better sustained.
5.  Crustacea identified as major components of the diet ofPagothenia borchgrevinki were individually attached to a force transducer to determine the vibrations produced by swimming movements.
6.  The Fourier amplitude spectra of swimming crustaceans exhibited prominent low frequency peaks at 3–6 Hz and higher frequency peaks in the 30–40 Hz range.
7.  It is concluded that the overlap in the frequency response characteristics of the anterior lateral line and the frequencies produced by crustacean prey clearly establishes the suitability of the lateral line for prey detection.
8.  In several instances recordings were made from fish primary afferent neurons responding to a swimming amphipod. These recordings confirm that crustacean swimming is indeed a potent natural stimulus of the lateral line system.
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1.  L3 is a prothoracic auditory interneuron which has an ascending axon projecting to the brain. It is rather broadly tuned and most sensitive to carrier frequencies around 16 kHz (mean threshold=60 dB) and at 4–5 kHz (mean threshold=70 dB, Fig. 1).
2.  During open field stimulation L3's excitatory response increases rather linearly as sound intensity is increased and is 10–15 dB more sensitive to ipsilateral stimulation (Fig. 2). With closed field stimulation L3 is 45 dB more sensitive to ipsilateral sound at 16 kHz, and at least 20 dB more sensitive at 5 kHz (Fig. 3). With closed field sound, contralateral stimulation at subthreshold intensities (5 and 16 kHz) usually results in hyperpolarization (Fig. 3).
3.  L3's excitatory response to 16 kHz on the ipsilateral side is suppressed by low frequencies on the same side and by low and high frequency sounds from the contralateral side (Fig. 4).
4.  In open and closed field conditions, the number of spikes/syllable decrements in response to successive syllables of each chirp (Fig. 5). This response is dependent on the syllable period (SP) of the song, with the greatest decrement occurring in response to SPs of 50–70 ms; longer and shorter SPs cause less decrement (Figs. 6–7). At both 5 kHz and 16 kHz the ability of L3 to encode syllables (standard SD = 23 ms) within a chirp is dependent on the SP. At short SPs L3 fires throughout the chirp, while at longer SPs (50–200 ms) L3 responds with a distinct burst of firing for each pulse. At SPs of 200 ms or more, no decrement occurs (Fig. 8).
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1.  Intracellular recordings of suboesophageal neurons were performed in the cricketGryllus bimaculatus during applied changes of head temperature in the range 8 to 32.5 °C. The temperature was controlled by perfusing the head with Ringer solution of appropriate temperature. Subsequent staining with Lucifer Yellow revealed descending, ascending or T-shaped cells with ventrally located somata (Fig. 1).
2.  In 6 out of 7 neurons recorded (Fig. 1, neurons A, B, C, D, E, G) the firing rate was correlated with abdominal ventilatory pumping (Fig. 2a, b). These neurons also received input from cereal sensory hairs (Fig. 2c). Furthermore, one of them (Fig. 1, neuron A) showed responses to auditory (Fig. 2d) and another (Fig. 1, neuron E) to visual input (Fig. 2e).
3.  Activity of every tested neuron was correlated with the temperature of the perfusing Ringer solution: the amplitude and duration of spikes and excitatory postsynaptic potentials increased with cooling (Fig. 3). Two types of temperature-dependent changes in firing rate were identified. In type I the spiking rate was higher at higher temperature (Figs. 4a, b; 5). In type II spiking rate was related to the direction of temperature change (Fig. 4c, d).
4.  The possible involvement of one of the recorded cells (Fig. 1, neuron F) in thermoreception processes is discussed. Activity of this neuron was not related to the rhythm of abdominal ventilatory pumping, nor did the cell receive cereal, visual or auditory input. Its activity was related mainly to the direction of temperature changes i.e. with an increase in firing rate during cooling, independent of the temperature at which the cooling started and with a transient decrease in firing rate during warming from starting point of 10 °C.
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1.  We used laser vibrometry and free field sound stimulation to study the frequency responses of the eardrum and the lateral body wall of awake male Eleutherodactylus coqui.
2.  The eardrum snowed one of two distinct frequency responses depending on whether the glottis was open (GO response) or closed (GC response) during the measurement.
3.  The lateral body wall vibrated with a maximum amplitude close to that of the eardrum and in the same frequency range.
4.  Covering the frog's body wall with vaseline reduced the vibration amplitude of the GC response by up to 15 dB.
5.  When a closed sound delivery system was used to stimulate a local area of the body wall the eardrum also showed one of two types of responses.
6.  These results suggest that sound is transmitted via the lung cavity to the internal surface of the eardrum. This lung input has a significant influence on the vibrations of the eardrum even when the glottis is closed.
7.  The vibration amplitude of the eardrum changed with the angle of sound incidence. The directionality was most pronounced in a narrow frequency range between the two main frequencies of the conspecific advertisement call.
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1.  While collecting nectar in hovering flight the European hawk moth Macroglossum stellatarum efficiently regulates its distance relative to flowers that are shaken by wind. This can be demonstrated in laboratory experiments by moving dummy flowers (blue cardboard disks) towards and away from the feeding animal (Fig. 1).
2.  Distance regulation is predominantly mediated by visual cues. Mechanoreceptors on the proboscis appear to contribute little to the response.
3.  Movements of dummy flowers can be simulated by expanding and contracting a pattern projected onto a screen. With this technique we investigated the dynamical properties of the servo mechanism underlying distance regulation. The system behaves as a bandpass filter with corner frequencies of 0.15 and 5 Hz (Figs.2,3).
4.  When a high-speed ramp-like movement of the flower is simulated, there is an asymmetry in the response. During simulated approach the reaction is phasic-tonic with a pronounced overshoot at the beginning, during simulated retraction it remains tonic (Fig.5B,C).
5.  During distance regulation the animals compensate for the speed of the edge of the projected pattern. Distance regulation improves substantially when the number of stimulated elementary movement detectors is increased through increasing the number of contour lines by projecting concentric rings instead of a homogeneous disk (Figs.7, 8).
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The wind-orientation of carrion beetles (Necrophorus humator F.) was studied by use of a locomotion-compensator.
1.  Beetles walking on a horizontal surface for periods of several minutes in a dark environment without an air current and other orientational stimuli seldom keep straight paths. They walk along individually different circular paths (Fig. 1). The mean walking speed is 5.6±1.0 cm/s. The mean of the angular velocity reaches maximally 25 °/s for individual beetles (mean angular velocity of the analysed population of 152 beetles: 1.9±9.3 °/s). The distribution of the mean walking directions of the population shows that the beetles display no preference for one direction (Fig. 3 A). The instantaneous value of the individual angular velocity is independent of the instantaneous walking direction.
2.  During exposure to an air current the individual beetles keep straight and stable courses with any orientation relative to the direction of air flow (Fig. 4). The mean walking directions of 76 individuals point in all directions but there is a weak preference of windward tracks (Fig. 3B).
3.  Wind orientated walking starts at a threshold wind velocity of about 5 cm/s (Fig. 6). The walking tracks straighten with increasing air current velocity. This leads to a narrowing of the distribution of the instantaneous walking directions around the preferred walking direction (Fig. 7C). This narrowing is due to an increase in the slope of the characteristic curve (angular velocity as a function of walking direction) of the wind-orientation system.
4.  Twenty percent of the beetles show a spontaneous change of their anemotactic course during walks of 5 min duration. Neither the time of the change, its position on the track or the direction of the new course are predictable. There is, however, a slight preference for 90±20° changes in the walking direction (Fig. 8).
5.  The antennae (Fig. 9) act as the only sense organs responsible for the wind orientation. The capability for wind orientated walks is lost after ablation of both flagella (Fig. 10).
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1.  The European hawk moth Macroglossum stellatarum, while collecting nectar in hovering flight in front of flowers, follows moving stripe patterns in the lateral visual field. This response counteracts a second one, that is the animals' effort to stabilize their distance from dummy flowers. We investigated the response to motion stimuli in the lateral visual field using sinusoidally oscillating stripe patterns (Fig. 1), as well as its interaction with the distance stabilizing response.
2.  In both responses moths attempt to compensate for image speed. The balance between the two depends on the number of elementary motion detectors stimulated by the dummy flower and the stripe pattern, respectively. Increasing the diameter of the dummy flower (Figs. 2 to 4) or the spatial frequency of the stripe pattern (Fig. 7) shifts the balance in favour of distance stabilization. The reverse is true when the length of the stripes in the pattern (Fig. 5) or their number is increased (Fig. 6). It does not matter whether the stripe pattern is presented in the lateral (Fig. 4A) or in the dorsal and ventral visual field (Fig. 4B).
3.  The gain-frequency relations of the response to the lateral stripe pattern obtained with dummies in two different positions within the drum have their maxima around 3 Hz and decline rapidly towards lower and higher frequencies like the response of a bandpass filter. The distance stabilizing response also has bandpass properties, but with a broad plateau between 0.15 and 5 Hz (Fig. 8). The most likely explanation for this difference is that there is a regional or direction-dependent variation of motion detector properties.
4.  The responses to ramp-like stimuli are phasic in accordance with the amplitude frequency characteristics, but the responses to progressive (front to back) and regressive motion of the pattern differ (Figs 9, 10).
5.  The response appears to depend on the azimuthal position of the stripe pattern within the visual field (Fig. 11). It is strongest when the pattern covers equally large parts of the frontal and caudal visual fields. The optomotor sensitivity to translational pattern motion is higher in the frontal than in the caudal visual field (Fig. 12, Table 1).
6.  When the stripe pattern on one side is removed, the response amplitude is halved. There is no detectable turning response around the vertical axis to the oscillation of the stripe pattern (Fig. 13, Table 2).
7.  The possible role of the response to pattern movements parallel to the longitudinal body axis under natural conditions is discussed.
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1.  Certain species of tiger moths emit clicks when stimulated by bat-like sounds. These clicks are generated by modified thoracic episterna (tymbals) (Fig. 1) and constitute a rhythmic behaviour activated by simple sensory input.
2.  Tymbal periods are indirectly related to stimulus intensity and periods (Fig. 3). Moths initiate sounds with the tymbal opposite to the stimulated ear and once a sequence commences it continues in an undisrupted fashion.
3.  The tymbal is innervated by a pleural branch (IIIN2a) of the metathoracic leg nerve, a similar anatomy to that in the unmodified episterna of silent moths (Fig. 5). Backfills of the IIIN2a in Cycnia tenera reveal sensory fibres and a cluster of 5–9 motor neurons with densely overlying dendritic fields (Fig. 6).
4.  Extracellular recordings of the IIIN2a reveal a large impulse preceding each tymbal sound (Fig. 7). I suggest that this impulse results from the synchronous firing of 2–3 motor neurons and is the motor output of the tymbal central pattern generator (CPG). The spikes alternate (Figs. 9, 10) and are bilaterally co-related (Fig. 11) but with an phase asymmetry of 2–3 ms (Fig. 12).
5.  Normal motor output continues in the absence of tymbal sounds (Fig. 13) and when all nerve-tymbal connections are severed (Fig. 14, Table 1) therefore this CPG operates independent of sensory feedback. A model is proposed for the tymbal circuitry based upon the present data and the auditory organization of related noctuid moths (Fig. 15). I propose that the tymbal response in modern arctiids evolved from either flight or walking CPGs and that preadaptive circuitry ancestral to tymbal movements still exists in modern silent Lepidoptera.
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The wind-orientated walk of carrion beetles Necrophorus humator F. was analysed under closed-loop conditions with a walking compensator and under openloop conditions with a paired tread wheel (Fig. 1).
1.  On the walking compensator an animal runs stable courses with a preferred direction relative to an air current (velocity =; 100 cm/s, Fig. 2B-D). A change in the air-current direction causes a corresponding adjustment of the mean walking direction (Fig. 3). Such course adjustment works best for changes in the air-current direction by an absolute value of 90° (Table 2).
2.  Under closed-loop conditions the animal shows deviations of less than ± 45° around its preferred direction relative to the wind (Fig. 2B-D). The characteristic curve which describes the animal's angular velocity as a function of the animal's walking direction relative to the air-current stimulus is therefore revealed only in this angular range (Fig. 3, top).
3.  Under open-loop conditions, however, complete characteristic curves can be obtained because the animal's walking reaction in response to any given angle of air-current stimulus is measurable on the paired tread wheel (Fig. 4). The characteristic curves are approximately sinusoidal functions. They can either show a shift parallel to the ordinale by a superimposed direction-independent constant angular velocity alone or, at the same time, they can independently exhibit an angular shift along the abscissa (Fig. 5).
4.  The walking tracks straighten with increasing air-current velocity (Fig. 6A, insets), i.e. the animal more rapidly compensates deviations from a preferred course. This corresponds to higher amplitudes of the characterisic curve and steeper slopes at the negative zero-crossing point under open- as well as under closed-loop conditions (Fig. 6).
5.  Walking in an air-current field can be explained by a model of the course control system using a feedback loop (Fig. 7). This model operates according to a sinusoidal characteristic function on which is superimposed a Gaussian white noise process of angular velocity which is independent of walking direction. The model produces realistic walking tracks in an air-current field (Fig. 8).
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1.  In an arena, female Acheta domesticus, which walked directly to a standard model calling song (CS) in a pretest, displayed angular deviations and complete 360° circling following unilateral occlusion of the posterior and anterior tympana. Following removal of the occlusion, the crickets once again oriented directly to the sound source (Fig. 1). Following unilateral removal of the tibia of a prothoracic leg just distal to the ear, crickets oriented directly to a standard CS. Unilateral leg amputation just proximal to the ear caused angular deviations and circling which was similar to that following occlusion of an ear (Fig. 2).
2.  Thresholds of auditory interneurons increased dramatically (to greater than 85 dB) following occlusion of the ear which provides excitatory input to these neurons. Removal of the occlusion restored responsiveness (Fig. 3).
3.  The mean number of complete turns by a cricket with one ear occluded is greatest in response to syllable periods that are most attractive and thus can be used as a measurement of the relative attractiveness of the CS presented (Figs. 4, 5). Females that did not significantly discriminate between different syllable periods before unilateral occlusion of an ear, discriminated between CS syllable periods by their degree of circling following occlusion.
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1.  Responses of 73 fibers to dorso-ventral vibration were recorded in the saccular and utricular branchlets of Rana pipiens pipiens using a ventral approach. The saccular branchlet contained nearly exclusively vibration-sensitive fibers (33 out of 36) with best frequencies (BFs) between 10 and 70 Hz, whereas none of the 37 fibers encountered in the utricular branchlet responded to dorso-ventral vibrations.
2.  Using a dorsal approach we recorded from the VIIIth nerve near its entry in the brainstem and analyzed responses to both sound and vibration stimuli for 65 fibers in R. pipiens pipiens and 25 fibers in Leptodactylus albilabris. The fibers were classified as amphibian papilla (AP), basilar papilla (BP), saccular or vestibular fibers based on their location in the nerve. Only AP and saccular fibers responded to vibrations. The AP-fibers responded to vibrations from 0.01 cm/s2 and to sound from 40 dB SPL by increasing their spike rate. Best frequencies (BFs) ranged from 60 to 900 Hz, and only fibers with BFs below 500 Hz responded to vibrations. The fibers had identical BF's for sound and vibration. The saccular fibers had BFs ranging from 10 to 80 Hz with 22 fibers having BFs at 40–50 Hz. The fibers responded to sound from 70 dB SPL and'to vibrations from 0.01 cm/s2.
3.  No differences in sensitivity, tuning or phase-locking were found between the two species, except that most BP-fibers in R. pipiens pipiens had BFs from 1.2 to 1.4 kHz, whereas those in L. albilabris had BFs from 2.0 to 2.2 kHz (matching the energy peak of L. albilabris' mating call).
4.  The finding that the low-frequency amphibian papilla fibers are extremely sensitive to vibrations raises questions regarding their function in the behaving animal. They may be substrate vibration receptors, respond to sound-induced vibrations or bone-conducted sound.
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1.  At 28°C conversion efficiency of total nitrogen (TN) was inversely related to size.
2.  In the pre-adult stage protein nitrogen (PN) conversion efficiency was high whereas in the Post-adult stage non-protein nitrogen (NPN) conversion efficiency was high.
3.  Lower temperature (20°C) was not congenial for PN conversion.
4.  Higher temperature favoured PN conversion for smaller fish but NPN for larger fish.
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1.  By penetrating axons in the ventral nerve cord of the dragonfly, Aeshna umbrosa, we measured the intracellular responses of target-selective visual interneurons to movement of black square targets ranging from 1° to 32° visual angle at several levels of mean background luminance.
2.  Neuronal responses, measured both in number of spikes and in the magnitude of integrated postsynaptic potentials, showed a preference for larger target size at lower mean luminance (Table 1, Figs. 1–3). The latency of postsynaptic potential (psp) and spike responses from onset of target movement increased with a decrease in mean luminance (Fig. 1).
3.  A measure of mean target size preference (Eqn. 1) for one identified interneuron (MDT4) in both laboratory and outdoor lighting shows a continuous decrease of preferred size with increases of mean luminance over more than 4 orders of magnitude.
4.  The time to reach the new steady state of cell response after the decrease of mean luminance was ordinarily less than 30 s, but sometimes longer (Fig. 4).
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1.  Auditory stimuli consisting of tape-recorded natural sounds were used in a study of 129 neurons in Field L of the caudal neostriatum in the forebrain of curarized starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).
2.  An extensive program of stimuli comprising many different signals (109 sound elements) was devised in order to permit identification of even very highly specialized neurons.
3.  As a rule, the time courses of the neuronal responses parallel those of certain parameters or parameter combinations of the sound stimuli. The responses of a few very specialized neurons, however, did not reflect any distinguishable temporal substructure within the effective sounds.
4.  64 neuons were examined with respect to the number of stimuli, out of a sample of 80 sound elements, eliciting a response. 24 of these neurons responded to less than 10 of the 80 natural sounds. These include neurons responding only to a single sound or to sounds of a single type.
5.  30 of the 64 neurons responded most strongly, or exclusively, to sounds of a single type.
6.  The criterion determining whether a neuron responds to a given sound may be a single parameter, a combination of parameters, or the entire complex of parameters describing the sound.
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1.  The overall rate of feeding at 28°C bears an inverse relationship to size; the time course of feeding appears to be size-independent and shows a decline with increase in time.
2.  Absorption efficiency is independent of size.
3.  The rates of absorption and conversion and conversion efficiency are inversely related to size.
4.  The rate of feeding is reflected on the rates of absorption and conversion.
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