Mechanisms of active vision in barn owls: From atomic head movements to complex visual behaviors

Applicant Professor Dr. Hermann Wagner

Co-Applicants Professor Dr. Ohad Ben-Shahar; Professor Dr. Ehud Rivlin

Subject Area Sensory and Behavioural Biology

Term from 2008 to 2011

Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 51155088

Final Report Year 2011

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

(2008) The owl cam: ego-centered assessment of visual behaviour in free-viewing barn owls, ECVP 2008, Utrecht, Netherlands
Harmening, W.M., Ohayon, S., Rivlin, E., Ben-Shahar, O., Wagner, H.
(2008) Vision in a nocturnal predator: the barn owl. AVA animal vision meeting, Cambridge, UK
Harmening, W. M., Göbbels, K., Orlowski, J., Nikolay, P. & Wagner, H.
(2009) Spatial contrast sensitivity and grating acuity of barn owls. Journal of Vision, 9(7):13, 1-12
Harmening, W. M., Nikolay, P., Orlowski, J., Wagner, H.
(2010) Disparity sensitivity in man and owl: psychophysical evidence for equivalent perception of shape-fromstereo. Journal of Vision, 10(1):10, 1-11
van der Willigen, R.F., Harmening, W. M., Vossen, S., Wagner, H.
(2010) Head motion of the barn owl (Tyto alba) during visual search. ISN 2010, Salamanca, Spain
Barzilai, O., Netser, S., Harmening, W. M., Wagner, H., Gutfreund, Y., Wolf, A
(2010) Image-based gaze analysis in free viewing barn owls. ISN 2010, Salamanca, Spain
Wagner, H., Orlowski, J., Ben-Shahar, O., Harmening, W. M.
(2010) Night vision in barn owls: visual resolution under dark adaptation. ECVP 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland
Orlowski, J., Harmening, W. M. , Wagner, H.
Orientation saliency without visual cortex and target selection in archer fish, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 107(38), 16726-16731, 2010
Mokeichev, A., Segev, R., and O. Ben-Shahar