Professor David O'Carroll

Research Interests

Vision - Visual Neuroscience - Computational Neuroscience - Biomimetics - Neuromorphic Engineering.

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Research Publications:

For publication lists and download links to articles, please see:

• ISI Publications via ResearcherID: David C. O'Carroll
• Publications profile on Google Scholar: David C. O'Carroll
• ResearchGate profile (inc. article downloads): David C. O'Carroll 

Selected publications

1. O'Carroll, D. (1993) 
Feature detecting neurons in dragonflies.
 Nature 362: 541-543.
doi:10.1038/362541a0
   
   
2. O'Carroll, D.C., Bidwell, N.J., Laughlin, S.B., & Warrant, E.J., (1996) 
Insect motion detectors matched to visual ecology. 
Nature 382: 63-66, 
doi:10.1038/382063a0
   
   
3. Dacke M, Nilsson DE, Warrant EJ, Blest AD, Land MF, O'Carroll DC (1999) 
Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders
.  Nature 401: 470-473, 
doi:10.1038/46773
   
   
4. Harris, R.A., O'Carroll, D.C., & Laughlin, S.B., (2000) 
Contrast gain reduction in fly motion adaptation. 
Neuron 28: 595-606
, doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)00136-7
   
   
5. Nordström, K & O'Carroll D.C. (2009) Feature Detection and the Hypercomplex Property in Insects. Trends in Neurosciences 32: 383-391 doi:10.1016/j.tins.2009.03.004
   
   
6. Nordström, K, Barnett, PD & O'Carroll D.C. (2006)
 Insect detection of small targets moving in visual clutter.
 PLoS Biology 4: 378-386 
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040054
   
   
7. Barnett P.D., Nordström K, & O'Carroll D.C. (2007)
 Retinotopic organization of small-field-target-detecting neurons in the insect visual system. 
Current Biology 17 (7): 569-578, 
doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.039
   
   
8. Nordström, K, Barnett, P.D, Moyer de Miguel, I., Brinkworth, R.S.A & O’Carroll, D.C. (2008)
 Sexual Dimorphism in the Hoverfly Motion Vision Pathway.
 Current Biology 18, 661–667, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.03.061
   
   
9. Brinkworth R.S.A. & O’Carroll D.C. (2009) Robust Models for Velocity Coding in Natural Scenes Inspired by Insect Biology. PLoS Computational Biology 5(11):e1000555, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000555
   
   
10. Barnett, P.D., Nordström, K, & O’Carroll, D.C. (2010) Motion adaptation and the velocity coding of natural scenes. Current Biology. 20: 994-999, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.03.072

 

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Medicine and medical research, Science and technology
Expertise	Visual processing; motion detection; visual adaption; pattern analysis; vision; neuromorphic engineering; artificial vision; bio-inspired vision;
Notes	Alt phone: (08) 8303 5328

Entry last updated: Saturday, 12 Jan 2013