Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Oct 5;11:551. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00551

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2017 Theunissen and Troje.

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

PMC Copyright notice

Pigeon actively compensate platform rotations but not translations with their head. (A–C) Median gains and mean phase shifts of the head in response to platform translations along the x-axis (A), the y-axis (B), and the z-axis (C). (D–F) Gains and phases for the respective rotations around the x-axis (D), the y-axis (E), and the z-axis (F). (A–F) Data are shown for light (red) and dark (black) conditions against frequency. A gain of one with a phase of zero indicates that the head was perfectly stabilized, whereas response gain of zero with phase zero means that the head moved with the same amplitude as the platform. Please note the different scales between translations and rotations. Error bars show 25 and 75 percentiles of the median gains and standard deviations of the mean phases of 10 animals. Asterisks indicate significant differences between light and dark conditions (U-Test, Watson-Willliams test, ^*p < 0.05; ^**p < 0.01; ^***p < 0.001).