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V V Zolotov

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[Critical evaluation of the searching technic of the polarization-sensitive neurons of insects].

The demerit of the light stimulator used by the authors was the presence of lenses between the eye and the observed light source. Apart from the image of the aperture diaphragm, the images of some details and reflections were formed. The terminal lens of the stimulator and the eye optics can divide the main and secondary images of the retina. Therefore the reactions of insect neurons to polarized light described previously could be explored also as the responses to flickers in secondary images.

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[Insect interneurons sensitive to polarized light].

Neurons responding with a rhythmic discharge to rotation of a polarization plane (frequency being 0.7 Hz) were found in the optic lobe of scarabaeids Geotrupes. Responses to a polarized light stimulus were compared with those evoked by light intensity modulation and with suspected responses to apparent rotatory movement of a filter. The polarization sensitivity of some observed neurons was about 2. The on-component of the response to polarization coincided with the horizontal position of the electric vector.

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