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Prof Adrian G. Horridge

Visual Sciences Group
Research School of Biology
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601
ph: +61 (02) 6125 4099
fax: +61 (02) 6125 3808

email:adrian.horridge@anu.edu.au
CV: Prof Adrian G. Horridge


Interview with Prof Adrian Horridge
By Australian Academy of Science

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Current position

Emeritus Professor


Research Interests

a) Broad interest in the nervous basis of behaviour, sense organs and brains, as studied by the techniques of electrophysiology, anatomy and behaviour.

b) Physics and physiology of the eye as a pattern for artificial seeing systems. Insect Models of visual systems. Vision in man.

c) Pattern Vision of the Honeybee. An experimental study started in 1993 and continuing through 2004.

d) The history, distribution, uses, anthropology, engineering structures and rigs relating to the traditional boats of Island Southeast Asia and the ethnology of maritime societies in SE Asia.


Selected Publications

2003   Discrimination of single bars by the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ). Vision Research, 43, 1257-1271.

2003   The visual system of the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ): the maximum length of the orientation detector. J Insect Physiol. 49, 621-628.

2003   Visual resolution of gratings by the compound eye of the bee ( Apis mellifera ). J. Exp . Biol. 206, 2105-2110.

2003   Visual discrimination by the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ): the position of the common centre as the cue. Physiological Entomology 28, 132-143.

2003   The effect of complexity on the discrimination of oriented bars by the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ). J. Comp. Physiol. A 189, 703-714.

2003   Visual resolution of the orientation cue by the honeybee ( Apis mellifera ). J Insect Physiol. 49, 1145-1152.

2005 What the honeybee sees: a review of the recognition system of Apis mellifera. Physiological Entomology 30, 2-13

2005 Visual recognition of a familiar place by a small brain: the honey bee. J. Comp. Physiol. A 191, 301-316.

2005 The spatial resolutions of the apposition compound eye and its neurosensory feature detectors: observation versus theory. J Insect Physiol. 51, 243-266.

2006a. Horridge, G.A., Visual processing of pattern. In: Warrant, E., Nilsson, D-E. (Eds.), Invertebrate Vision. Cambridge University Press, England, pp. 494-525.

2006b Horridge, G.A., Visual discrimination of spokes, sectors, and circles by the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Journal of Insect Physiology 52, 984-1003.

2006c. Horridge, G.A., Some labels that are recognized on landmarks by the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Journal of Insect Physiology 52, 1254-1271.

2007. Horridge, G.A., The preferences of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) for different visual cues during the learning process. Journal of Insect Physiology 53, 877-889.

2008. Origins and relationships of Pacific canoes and rigs. In: Canoes of the Grand Ocean. Di Piazza, A. and Pearthree, E. Eds. BAR International Series No. 1802. Archaeopress. Oxford. ISBN 978 1 4073 0289 8

2009 Horridge, G.A., Generalization in visual recognition by the honeybee (Apis mellifera). A review and explanation. Journal of Insect Physiology 55, 499-511.

Horridge, G.A., What does the honeybee see? In How animals see the world. Eds Lazareva, O. Shimizu, T. & Wasserman, E. Oxford Univ Press. (in press).

Horridge, G.A., What does an insect see? Journal of Experimental Biology 212,

2009. Horridge, G.A., What does the honeybee see? And how do we know? A critique of scientific reason. Pp. ? Canberra, ANU ePress. (in press).

Speeches:
The reminiscences of research on the compound eye - an edited version of an after-dinner entertainment at an International Conference on Invertebrate Vision, Baeckaskog Castle, Sweden, August 11, 2001.
by Adrian Horridge.

After Dinner Speech - text of the After-Dinner Speech at the Conference on "Insect Sensors and Robotics", at Brisbane, on Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 by Emeritus Professor Adrian Horridge, read by Professor M.V. Srinivasan


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