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Martin Egelhaaf
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· Bart Geurten
· Patrick Hennig
· Roland Kern
· Daniel Kress
· Jens Peter Lindemann
· Marcel Mertes
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· Alexander Schwegmann
· Christian Spalthoff
· Wolfgang Stürzl
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Martin Egelhaaf
 
Personal Information
 
   
Name Martin Egelhaaf
Date of Birth June 3rd 1955
Nationality German
   
   
Room No W4 - 134
Phone +49.521.106-5570
Mail martin.egelhaaf@uni-bielefeld.de
   
 
University Education
 
1989 Habilitation in "Animal Physiology", University of Tübingen, Germany

 
1981 - 1985 Doctoral-Thesis: "On the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion in the nervous system of the fly", Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik (Tübingen, Germany)

 
1979 - 1980 Diploma-Thesis: "Coupled neuronal oscillators in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis: endogenous cellular properties and network interactions" (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)

 
1975 - 1980 Undergraduate - Universität Tübingen (Germany)

 
 
Academic Appointments
 
   
since
Oct. 2007
Principal Investigator at the Center of Excellence 'Cognitive Interaction Technology' (Bielefeld University)

 
since 2006 Vice-Rector for Research at Bielefeld University

 
2002 - 2004 Dean of Faculty of Biology at Bielefeld University

 
since
Oct. 1995
Professor and Head of Department, Dept. of Neurobiology, Bielefeld University

 
1994 - 1995 Fellow (tenured), Visual Sciences Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)

 
1985 - 1993 "Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter", Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik (Tübingen, Germany)

 
 
Awards
 
   
1985

Otto-Hahn Prize of the Max-Planck Society  
 
Further Scientific Activities
 
   
Member of the Editorial Boards of Biological Cybernetics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New-York) and of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York)

 
 
Scientific Societies
 
   
1993 Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (Germany)  
1990 Society for Neuroscience (USA)  
1989 International Brain Research Organization  
1989 European Neuroscience Association  
1985 International Society for Neuroethology  
1981 Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft (Germany)

 
 
Research Interests
 
Visually guided flight control in insects  
Active vision strategies  
Spatial learning strategies and spatial learning in honeybees  
Neuronal mechanisms underlying visually guided behaviour of insects  
Information processing by nerve cells and neuronal networks  
Population coding of natural sensory information  
Neuromodelling  
Bio-inspired robotics

   
 
List of Publication
  2010
Dittmar L., Stürzl W., Baird E., Boeddeker N., Egelhaaf M.: Goal seeking in honeybees: matching of optic flow snapshots? J. Exp. Biol. 213, 2912 - 2923 (2010).

 
Stürzl W., Boeddeker N., Dittmar L., Egelhaaf M.: Mimicking honeybee eyes with a 280 degrees field of view catadioptric imaging system. Bioinspir. Biomim. 5, 036002 (2010).

 
Geurten BRH, Kern R., Braun E., Egelhaaf M.: A syntax of hoverfly flight prototypes. The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 2461-2475, doi:10.1242/jeb.036079 (2010).

 
Rosner R., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Behavioural state affects motion-sensitive neurons in the fly visual system. The Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 331-338, doi:10.1242/jeb.035386 (2010).

 
Trischler C., Kern R., Egelhaaf M.: Chasing behaviour and optomotor following in free-flying male blowflies: flight performance and interactions of the underlying control systems. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 4:20. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00020 (2010).

 
Boeddeker N., Dittmar L., Stürzl W., and Egelhaaf M.: The fine structure of honeybee head and body movements in a homing task. Proc. R. Soc. B  277, 1899 - 1906 (2010).

 
Spalthoff C., Egelhaaf M.,  Tinnefeld P., Kurtz R.: Localized direction selective responses in the dendrites of visual interneurons of the fly. BMC Biology 8:36 (2010).

 
Braun E., Geurten B., Egelhaaf M.: Identifying Prototypical Components in Behaviour Using Clustering Algorithms. PLoS ONE 5(2): e9361.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009361 (2010)

 
  2009
Rosner R., Egelhaaf M., Grewe J., Warzecha A.-K.: Variability of blowfly head optomotor responses. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1170 - 1184 (2009)

 
Beckers U., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Precise timing and synchronisation in fly motion vision is mediated by fast components of combined graded and spike signals. Neuroscience, 160 (3), 639 - 650. DOI 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.02.045 (2009)

 
Kurtz R., Beckers U., Hundsdörfer B., Egelhaaf M.: Mechanisms of afterhyperpolarization following activation of fly visual motion-sensitive neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience 30, 567 - 577 (2009).

 
Kurtz R., Egelhaaf M., Meyer H. G., Kern R.: Adaptation accentuates responses of fly motion-sensitive visual neurons to sudden stimulus changes. Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, 3711 - 3719 (2009)

 
  2008
Stürzl W., Dittmar L., Boeddeker N., and Egelhaaf M.: Probing navigation strategies of honeybees - landmark experiments and simulations. ECCV Workshop on 'Vision in Action (ViA08): Efficient strategies for cognitive agents in complex environments' (2008)

 
Liang P., Kern R., Egelhaaf M.: Motion Adaptation Enhances Object-Induced Neural Activity in Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment. Journal of Neuroscience 28 (44), 11328 - 11332 (2008)

 
Kalb J., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Adaptation of velocity encoding in synaptically coupled neurons in the fly visual system. Journal of Neuroscience 28 (37), 9183 - 9193 (2008)

 
Kalb J., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Adaptation changes directional sensitivity in a visual motion-sensitive neuron of the fly. Vision Research 48, 1735 - 1742. (2008)

 
Lindemann J. P., Weiss H., Möller R., Egelhaaf M.: Saccadic flight strategy facilitates collision avoidance: closed-loop performance of a cyberfly. Biol. Cybern. 98: 213-277, DOI 10.1007/s00422-007-0205-x (2008).

 
Egelhaaf M. Fly Vision: Neural Mechanisms of Motion Computation. Curr. Biol. 18 (8) R339 - R341, DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2008.02.046 (2008).
 
Hennig P., Möller R., Egelhaaf M.: Distributed Dendritic Processing Facilitates Object Detection: A Computational Analysis on the Visual System of the Fly. PLoS ONE 3 (8): e3092 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003092 (2008).

Eckmeier D., Geurten B. R. H., Kress D., Mertes M., Kern R., Egelhaaf M., Bischof H.-J.: Gaze Strategy in the Free Flying Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) PLoS ONE 3 (12): e3956 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.00033956 (2008).

  2007
 
Trischler C., Boeddeker N., Egelhaaf M.: Characterisation of a blowfly male-specific neuron using behaviourally generated visual stimuli. J Comp Physiol A 193 (5), 559 - 572, DOI: 10.1007/s00359-007-0212-3. (2007)

 
Beckers U., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Synapses in the fly motion-vision pathway: Evidence for a broad range of signal amplitudes and dynamics. J Neurophysiol. 97, 2032 - 2041, DOI: 10.1152/jn.01116.2006 (2007)

 
Grewe J., Weckström M., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Information and discriminability as measures of reliability of sensory coding. PLoS ONE, 2(12):e1328(2007)

 
  2006
 
Kalb J., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Adaptation changes directional sensitivities in a visual motion-sensitive neuron of the fly (submitted) (2006).

 
Grewe J., Matos N., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Implications of Functionally Different Synaptic Inputs for Neuronal Gain and Computational Properties of Fly Visual Interneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 96, 1838 - 1847 (2006).

 
Kalb J., Egelhaaf M., Kurtz R.: Robust integration of motion information in the fly visual system revealed by single cell photoablation. Journal of Neuroscience 26(30), 7898-906 (2006).

 
Karmeier K., van Hateren J.H., Kern R., Egelhaaf M.: Encoding of naturalistic optic flow by a population of blowfly motion-sensitive neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 96(3), 1602-14 (2006)

 
Kern R., van Hateren J.H., Egelhaaf M.: Representation of behaviourally relevant information by blowfly motion-sensitive visual interneurons requires precise compensatory head movements. The Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 1251-1260, (2006)

 
  2005
 
Kern R., van Hateren J.H., Michaelis C., Lindemann J.P. , Egelhaaf M.: Fly Movie Theater Reveals Secrets of How Insects See the World. June 2005, Volume 3, Issue 6, e209 (2005)

 
Boeddeker N., Egelhaaf M.: A single control system for smooth and saccade-like pursuit in blowies. The Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 1563-1572 (2005)

 
Egelhaaf M., The neural computation of visual motion information. In: Invertebrate vision (Eds. Warrant E., Nielsson D.E.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (in press)

 
Karmeier K., Krapp H.G., Egelhaaf M. Population coding of self-motion: Applying Bayesian Inference to a population of visual interneurons in the fly. Journal of Neurophysiology 94, 2182-2194 (2005).

 
Heitwerth J., Kern R., van Hateren J.C., Egelhaaf M. Motion adaptation leads to parsimonious encoding of natural optic flow by blowfly motion vision system. Journal of Neurophysiology 94, 1761-1769 (2005).

 
Kern R., van Hateren H.J., Michaelis C., Lindemann J.P., Egelhaaf M. Function of a fly motion-sensitive neuron matches eye movements during free flight. PLoS-Biology, June 2005, Volume 3, Issue 6, e171 (2005).

 
Lindemann J.P., Kern R., van Hateren H., Egelhaaf M.: On the computations analysing natural optic flow: Quantitative model analysis of the blowfly motion vision pathway. Journal of Neuroscience 25(27), 6435-6448 (2005).

 
van Hateren H.J., Kern R., Schwerdtfeger G., Egelhaaf M.: Function and coding in the blowfly H1 neuron during naturalistic optic flow. Journal of Neuroscience 25(17), 4343-4352 (2005).

 
Boeddeker N., Lindemann J. P., Egelhaaf M., Zeil J., Responses of blowfly motion-sensitive neurons to reconstructed optic flow along outdoor flight paths. Journal of Comp. Physiol. A 25(27), 6435-48 (2005).

 
  2004
 
Kalb,J.; Fricke, M.; Nielsen, T.; Egelhaaf, M. and Kurtz, R.. In vivo two-photon laser-scanning microscopy of Ca2+ dynamics in visual motion-sensitive neurons. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 316, 341-347 (2004)

 
Egelhaaf, M., Grewe J., Karmeier K., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K.. Novel approaches to visual processing in insects: Case studies on neuronal computations in the blowfly. In: Methods in insect sensory neuroscience. (Ed. Christensen T.A.), pp. 185-212. CRC Press, Boca Raton, London, New York (2004).

 
Egelhaaf, M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K.. Fly: processing of visual motion information and ist role in visual orientation. In: Encyclopedia of Neurosci. (Eds Adelman G., Smith B.H.), Elsevier (2004).

 
Egelhaaf, M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K.: In the cockpit of the fly. German Research Special 2004, 28-31 (2004)

 
  2003
 
Boeddeker N., Kern R., and Egelhaaf M.: Chasing a dummy target: Smooth pursuit and velocity control in male blowflies. Proc.R.Soc.Lond.B, 270, 393 – 399 (2003)

 
Boeddeker N and Egelhaaf M.: Steering a model fly: Simulations on visual pursuit in blowflies. Proc.R.Soc.Lond.B, 270, 1971-1978 (2003)

 
Egelhaaf M., Böddeker N., Kern R., Kretzberg J., Lindemann J. P., Warzecha
A.-K.: Visually guided orientation in flies: case studies in computational neuroethology. J Comp Physiol A 189, 401 – 409 (2003)

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K. In the cockpit of the fly. German Research 1/2003, 10–13 (2003)

 
Grewe J., Kretzberg J., Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf. M. Impact of photon-noise on the reliability of a motion-sensitive neuron in the fly's visual system. J.Neurosci. 23:10776-10783, 2003

 
Karmeier K., Krapp H. G., Egelhaaf M.: Robustness of the tuning of fly visual interneurons to rotatory optic flow. J.Neurophysiol. 90:1626-1634, 2003

 
Kretzberg J., Sejnowski T., Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Variability of postsynaptic responses depends non-linearly on the number of synaptic inputs. Neurocomputing 52-54, 313 – 320 (2003)

 
Kurtz R., Egelhaaf M.: Natural patterns of neural activity: How physiological mechanisms are orchestrated to cope with real life. Mol. Neurobiol. 27, 13 - 32. (2003)

 
Lindemann J.P., Kern R., Michaelis C., Meyer P., van Hateren J. H., Egelhaaf M.: FliMax, a novel stimulus device for panoramic and highspeed presentation of behaviourally generated optic flow. Vision Res. 43, 779 – 791 (2003)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Kurtz R., Egelhaaf M.: Synaptic transfer of dynamic motion information between identified neurons in the visual system of the blowfly. Neuroscience, 119, 1103 – 1112 (2003)

 
  2002
 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Krapp Holger G., Kretzberg J., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K.: Neural encoding of behaviourally relevant visual-motion information in the fly. Trends in Neurosciences 24, 96 – 102 (2002)

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K.: Fly, processing of visual motion information and its role in visual orientation. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Adelman G, Smith BH, Eds), Elsevier, Amsterdam

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern, R. Vision in flying insects. Curr.Opin.Neurobiol. 12, 699 - 706, 2002

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K. Ein Blick ins Cockpit der Fliege: Von der Bildverarbeitung im Nervensystem zu künstlichen visuellen Systemen. Forschung an der Universität Bielefeld, 24, 9 – 14 (2002)

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K. Im Cockpit der Fliege. Forschung 3-4/2002, 30 – 34 (2002)

 
  2001
 
Dürr V., Kurtz R., Egelhaaf M.: Two classes of visual motion sensitive interneurons differ in direction and velocity dependency of in Vivo calcium dynamics. J.Neurobiol. 46, 289 – 300 (2001)

 
Egelhaaf M., Grewe J., Kern R., Warzecha A.-K.: Outdoor performance of a motion-sensitive neuron in the blowfly. Vis. Res. 41, 3627 – 3637 (2001)

 
Karmeier K., Tabor R., Egelhaaf M., Krapp HG.: Early visual experience and the receptive field organization of optic flow processing interneurons in the fly motion pathway. Vis.Neurosci. 18, 1 - 8 (2001)

 
Kern R., Lutterklas M., Petereit C., Lindemann J. P., Egelhaaf M.: Neuronal processing of behaviourally generated optic flow: experiments and model simulations. Network: Comput. Neural Syst. 12, 351 – 369 (2001)

 
Kern R, Petereit C, Egelhaaf M.: Neural processing of naturalistic optic flow. J.Neurosci. 21, RC 139 (1-5), (2001)

 
Krapp HG, Hengstenberg R, Egelhaaf M.: Binocular contribution to optic flow processing in the fly visual system. J.Neurophysiol. 85, 724 - 734, (2001)

 
Kretzberg J., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.K.: Membrane potential fluctuations determine the precision of spike timing and synchronous activity: A model study. J.Comput.Neurosci. 10, 79 - 97, (2001)

 
Kretzberg J., Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Neural coding with graded membrane potential changes and spikes. J. Comput. Neurosci. 11, 153 – 164 (2001)

 
Kurtz R., Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Transfer of visual motion information via graded synapses operates linearly in the natural activity range. J. Neurosci. 21: 6957-6966 (2001)

 
Warzecha, A.K., Egelhaaf M.: Neuronal encoding of visual motion in real-time. From: Motion vision - computational, neural, and ecological constraints (Eds.: J. Zeil, J. Zanker) Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York. pp. 239 - 277 (2001)

 
  2000
 
Egelhaaf M.:Optimisation of movement detection in insects. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis, D Medica 584, 22 - 25 (2000)

 
Horstmann W., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Synaptic interactions increase optic flow specificity. European Journal of Neuroscience 12, 2157 – 2165 (2000)

 
Kern R., Egelhaaf M.: Optomotor course control in flies with largely asymmetric visual input. J.Comp.Physiol.A 186, 45 – 55 (2000)

 
Kern R., Lutterklas M., Egelhaaf M.: Neuronal representation of optic flow experienced by unilaterally blinded flies on their mean walking trajectories. J.Comp.Physiol.A 186, 467 – 479 (2000)

 
Kimmerle B., Egelhaaf M.: Detection of object motion by a fly neuron during simulated flight. J.Comp.Physiol.A 186, 21–31 (2000)

 
Kimmerle B., Eikermann J., Egelhaaf M.: Object fixation by the blowfly during tethered flight in a simulated three-dimensional environment. J.Exp.Biol. 203, 1723 – 1732 (2000)

 
Kimmerle B., Egelhaaf M.: Performance of fly visual interneurons during object fixation. The Journal of Neuroscience, 20 (16), 6256 - 6266 (2000)

 
Kurtz R., Dürr V., Egelhaaf M.: Dendritic calcium accumulation associated with direction selective adaptation in visual motion sensitive neurons in vivo. J.Neurophysiol. 84: 1914 - 1923 (2000)

 
Petrowitz R., Dahmen H., Egelhaaf M., Krapp H. G.: Arrangement of optical axes and spatial resolution in the compound eye of the female blowfly Calliphora. J.Comp.Physiol.A 186, 737 - 746 (2000)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Response latency of a motion-sensitive neuron in the fly visual system: dependence on stimulus parameters and physiological conditions. Vision Research 40, 2973 - 2983 (2000)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Kretzberg J., Egelhaaf M.: Reliability of a fly motion-sensitive neuron depends on stimulus parameters. J.Neurosci. 20: 8886 - 8896 (2000)

 
  1999
 
Dürr V., Egelhaaf M.: In vivo calcium accumulation in presynaptic and postsynaptic dendrites of visual interneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 82, 3327 – 3338 (1999)

 
Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Encoding of motion in real time by the fly visual system. Curr. Opin. in Neurosci. 9, 454 - 460 (1999)

 
Warzecha A.K., Egelhaaf M.: Variability in spike trains during constant and dynamic stimulation. Science 283, 1927 - 1930 (1999)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Horstmann W, Egelhaaf M.: Temperature-dependence of neuronal performance in the motion pathway of the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala. J.Exp.Biol. 202, 3161 – 3170 (1999)

 
Zanker J., Srinivasan M.V., Egelhaaf M.: Speed tuning in elementary motion detectors of the correlation type. Biol. Cybern. 80 (2), 109 - 116 (1999)

 
  1998
 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Fly, neuronal control of visual orientation. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Eds.: Adelman G., Smith B., Elsevier, Amsterdam

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Warzecha A.-K.: Ein Blick ins Cockpit der Fliege: Wie steuern neuronale Schaltkreise visuelles Orientierungsverhalten? Neuroforum 4: 204-212 (1998)

 
Egelhaaf M., Kern R., Warzecha A.-K.: Sensory ecology and neural coding in arthropods. Z.Naturforsch. 53 c: 582 - 592 (1998)

 
Schmidt R., Buschlinger W., Egelhaaf M., Koch M., Krüger J., Malaka R., Peifer R., Vollmer G., Wagner H.: Influence of brain and computer design on the performance of natural and artificial organisms. Z.Naturforsch. 53 c, 752 - 764 (1998)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: On the performance of biological movement detectors and ideal velocity sensors in the context of optomotor course stabilization. Vis. Neurosci. 15, 113-122 (1998)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Kretzberg J., Egelhaaf M.: Temporal precision of the encoding of motion information by visual interneurons. Current Biology 8: 359-368 (1998)

 
Zeil J., Egelhaaf M.: Visual ecology and neural coding. In: Neuroethology on the Move, Eds. Elsner N., Wehner R., Thieme, Stuttgart, New York, pp. 347-351 (1998)

 
  1997
 
Gauck V., Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Synapse Distribution on VCH, an Inhibitory, Motion-Sensitive Interneuron in the Fly Visual System. J.Comp.Neurol. 381, 489-499 (1997)

 
Kern R., Egelhaaf M., Srinivasan M.V.: Edge detection in landing honeybees: Behavioural analysis and model simulations of the underlying mechanisms. Vision Res. 37, 2103-2117 (1997)

 
Kimmerle B., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha A.-K.: Object detection in the fly during simulated translatory flight. J.Comp.Physiol.A 181, 247-255 (1997)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: How reliably does a neuron in the visual motion pathway of the fly encode behaviourally relevant information? Europ. J. Neurosci. 9, 1365-1374 (1997)

 
  1996
 
Kimmerle B., Egelhaaf M., Srinivasan MV: Object detection by relative motion in freely flying flies. Naturwissenschaften 83, 380-381 (1996)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Intrinsic properties of biological motion detectors prevent optomotor control system from getting unstable. Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. 351, 1579-1591 (1996)

 
  1995
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Visuomotor coordination in flies. In: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Ed.: Arbib M.A. Bradford Books/MIT-Press, Cambridge pp. 1031-1036. (1995)

 
Borst, A., Egelhaaf, M. and Haag, J.: Mechanisms of dendritic integration underlying gain control in fly motion-sensitive interneurons. J.Comput.Neurosci. 2, 5-18 (1995)

 
Brotz T., Egelhaaf M., A. Borst: A preparation of the blowfly (Calliphora erythrocephala) brain for in vitro electrophysiological and pharmacological studies. J.Neurosci.Methods 57, 37-46 (1995)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Calcium accumulation in visual interneurons of the fly: Stimulus dependence and relationship to membrane potential. J. Neurophysiol. 73, 2540-2552 (1995)

 
Warzecha, A.-K., Egelhaaf M.: Visual pattern discrimination in a butterfly: A behavioural study on the Australian Lurcher, Yoma sabina. Naturwissenschaften 82, 567-570 (1995)

 
  1994
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Dendritic processing of synaptic information by sensory interneurons. Trends Neurosci. 17, 257-263 (1994)

 
Egelhaaf M., Haag J., Borst A.: Processing of synaptic information depends on the structure of the dendritic tree. NeuroReport 6, 205-210 (1994)

 
  1993
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Processing of synaptic signals in fly visual interneurons selectively responsive to small moving objects. In: Brain Theory - Spatio-Temporal Aspects of Brain Function. Eds.: Aertsen, A. and W. von Seelen. Elsevier, Amsterdam (1993) pp. 47-66

 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Detecting visual motion: Theory and models. In: Visual Motion and its Role in the Stabilization of Gaze. Eds. Miles F.A., Wallman J. Elsevier, Amsterdam (1993)

 
Borst A., Seung S., Egelhaaf M.: Two-dimensional motion perception in flies. Neural Computation 5, 856-868 (1993)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Motion computation and visual orientation in flies. Comp.Biochem.Physiol 104A, 659-673 (1993)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: A look into the cockpit of the fly: Visual orientation, algorithms and identified neurons. J. Neurosci. 13, 4563-4574 (1993)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Movement detection in arthropods. In: Visual Motion and its Role in the Stabilization of Gaze. Eds. Miles F.A., J. Wallman J. Elsevier, Amsterdam (1993)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A., Warzecha A.-K., Flecks S., Wildemann A.: Neural circuit tuning fly visual interneurons to motion of small objects. II. Input organization of inhibitory circuit elements revealed by electrophysiological and optical recording techniques. J.Neurophysiol. 69, 340-351 (1993)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Neural circuit tuning fly visual interneurons to motion of small objects. I. Dissection of the circuit by pharmacological and photoinactivation techniques. J.Neurophysiol. 69, 329-339 (1993)

 
Koch C., Betz H., Douglas R.J., Egelhaaf M., Jack J., Korn H., Marder E., Parnas H., Segel L.A., Traub R.D., Vetter T.: Molecular and biophysical mechanisms of information processing. In: Exploring Brain Functions: Models in Neuroscience. Eds. Glaser D., Poggio T. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and New York (1993)

 
  1992
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: In vivo imaging of calcium accumulation in fly interneurons as elicited by visual motion stimulation. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 89, 4139-4143 (1992)

 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Im Cockpit der Fliege: Neuronale Bildverarbeitung im Fliegengehirn. MPG-Spiegel 3/92, 14-16 (1992)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Are there separate ON and OFF channels in fly motion vision? Visual Neurosci. 8, 151-164 (1992)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Is there a separate control system mediating a 'centering response' in honeybees? Naturwissenschaften 79, 221-223 (1992)

 
Haag, J., Egelhaaf M., Borst, A.: Dendritic integration of motion information in the visual interneurons of the blowfly. Neurosci.Lett. 140, 173-176 (1992)

 
Warzecha A.-K., Borst, A., Egelhaaf M.: Photo-ablation of single neurons in the fly visual system reveals neural circuit for the detection of small moving objects. Neurosci.Lett. 141, 119-122 (1992)

 
  1991
 
Egelhaaf M.: How do flies use visual motion information to control their course? Zool.Jb.Syst.Phys. 95, 287-296 (1991)

 
Zanker J.M., Egelhaaf M., Warzecha W.-K.: On the coordination of motor output during visual flight control of flies. J.Comp.Physiol.A 169, 127-134 (1991)

 
  1990
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Direction selectivity of blowfly motion-sensitive neurons is computed in a two-stage process. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 87, 9363-9367 (1990)

 
Egelhaaf M.: Spatial interactions in the fly visual system leading to selectivity for small-field motion.Naturwiss. 77, 182-185 (1990)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Bewegungswahrnehmung und visuelle Orientierung bei Fliegen. Naturwiss. 77, 366-377 (1990)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A., Pilz B.: The role of GABA in detecting visual motion. Brain Res. 509, 156-160 (1990)

 
  1989
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Principles of visual motion detection. Trends in Neurosci. 12, 297-306 (1989)

 
Egelhaaf M.: Visual afferences to flight steering muscles controlling optomotor responses of the fly. J. Comp. Physiol. A 165, 719-730 (1989)

 
Egelhaaf M.: Motion detection and visual orientation: A combined behavioral, neuronal and theoretical analysis of the fly's visual system. In: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior. Eds. Erber J., Menzel R., Pflüger H.-J., Todt D.; Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart New York 1989, pp. 90-95

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A.: Transient and steady-state response properties of movement detectors. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 6, 116-127 (1989). Errata: J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 7, 172 (1990)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst, A., Reichardt W.: The nonlinear mechanism of direction selectivity in the fly motion detection system. Naturwiss. 76, 32-35 (1989)

 
Egelhaaf M., Borst A., Reichardt W.: Computational structure of a biological motion-detection system as revealed by local detector analysis in the fly's nervous system. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 6, 1070-1087 (1989)

 
Hausen, K., Egelhaaf M.: Neural mechanisms of visual course-control in insects. In: Facets in Vision, Eds. Hardie R., Stavenga D., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo 1989, 391-424

 
Reichardt W., Egelhaaf M., Guo A.: Processing of figure and background motion in the visual system of the fly. Biol. Cybern. 61, 327-345 (1989)

 
  1988
 
Egelhaaf M., Hausen K., Reichardt W., Wehrhahn C.: Visual course control in flies relies on neuronal computation of object and background motion. Trends in Neurosci. 11, 351-358 (1988)

 
Reichardt W., Egelhaaf M.: Properties of individual movement detectors as derived from behavioural experiments on the visual system of the fly. Biol. Cybern. 58, 287-294 (1988)

 
Reichardt W., Egelhaaf M., Schlögl R.W.: Movement detectors provide sufficient information for local computation of 2-D velocity field. Naturwiss. 75, 313-315 (1988)

 
Reichardt W., Schlögl R.W., Egelhaaf M.: Movement detectors of the correlation type provide sufficient information for local computation of the 2-D velocity field. In: Neural and Synergetic Computers, Ed. Haken H.,. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Toyko 1988, 170-179

 
  1987
 
Borst A., Egelhaaf M.: Temporal modulation of luminance adapts time constant of fly movement detectors. Biol. Cybern. 56, 209-215 (1987)

 
Egelhaaf M.: Dynamic properties of two control systems underlying visually guided turning in house-flies. J. Comp. Physiol. A 161, 777-783 (1987)

 
Egelhaaf M., Reichardt W.: Dynamic response properties of movement detectors: Theoretical analysis and electrophysiological investigation in the visual system of the fly. Biol. Cybern. 56, 69-87 (1987)

 
  1985
 
Egelhaaf M.: On the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion in the visual system of the fly. I. Behavioural constraints imposed on the neuronal network and the role of the optomotor system. Biol. Cybern. 52, 123-140 (1985)

 
Egelhaaf M.: On the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion in the visual system of the fly. II. Figure-detection cells, a new class of visual interneurones. Biol. Cybern. 52, 195-209 (1985)

 
Egelhaaf M.: On the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion in the visual system of the fly. III. Possible input circuitries and behavioural significance of the FD-cells. Biol. Cybern. 52, 267-280 (1985)

 
  1983
 
Egelhaaf M., Benjamin P.R.: Coupled neuronal oscillators in the snail Lymnaea stagnalis: Endogenous cellular properties and network interactions. J. exp. Biol. 102, 93-114 (1983)

 
  1982
 
Egelhaaf M., Benjamin P.R.: Inhibition by recurrent excitation: A mechanism for spike synchronization in a network of coupled neuronal oscillators. J.exp. Biol. 96, 447-452 (1982)  
   
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