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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