Spectral inputs and ocellar contributions to a pitch - sensitive descending neuron in the 1 honeybee

National Vision Research Institute, Australian College of Optometry, Corner Keppel and Cardigan 7 Streets, Carlton, Victoria, 3053, Australia 8 Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Melbourne, 4th Floor Alice Hoy, 9 Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia 10 ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Research School of Biology and Eccles Institute of 11 Neuroscience, John Curtain School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, 12 ACT 2601, Australia. 13 4 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering, University 14 of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 15 16 Corresponding Author: 17 Michael R. Ibbotson 18 National Vision Research Institute, Australian College of Optometry, Corner Keppel and Cardigan 19 Streets, Carlton, Victoria, 3053, Australia 20 Email: [email protected] 21 22 23 Abstract 24 By measuring insect compensatory optomotor reflexes to visual motion, researchers have examined 25 the computational mechanisms of the motion processing system. However, establishing the spectral 26 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (November 28, 2012). doi:10.1152/jn.00830.2012