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Werner Reichardt, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.

Werner Reichardt

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In 1960 the Max Planck Society offered Werner Reichardt an independent department at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen. Through his initiative this department was to become the foundation of today’s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. Here he worked as head of the department Information Processing in Insects up to his retirement in 1992. His research focused on the processing of information in the nervous system of Drosophila and helped clarify vision in motion. Together with Bernhard Hassenstein and Hans Wenking he analyzed the properties of the insect sight and its influence on the flight orientation. In 1977 Werner Reichardt had a successful breakthrough, when discovering that flies use motion discontinuities in their visual surroundings to distinguish objects from the background. Flies turn towards a single, randomly textured stripe in front of an equally textured background, but only as long as it moves relative to the ground.

more about Werner Reichardt

Articles (70):
•	Reichardt W , Egelhaaf M and Guo A-K (September-1989) Processing of figure and background motion in the visual system of the fly Biological Cybernetics 61(5) 327-345.
•	Egelhaaf M , Borst A and Reichardt WE (1989) 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.
•	Egelhaaf M , Borst A and Reichardt WE (1989) The nonlinear mechanism of direction selectivity in the fly motion detection system Naturwiss 76 32-35.
•	Reichardt W and Schlögl RW (November-1988) A two dimensional field theory for motion computation. First order approximation; translatory motion of rigid patterns Biological Cybernetics 60(1) 23-35.
•	Reichardt W and Egelhaaf M (April-1988) Properties of individual movement detectors as derived from behavioural experiments on the visual system of the fly. Biological Cybernetics 58(5) 287-294.
•	Reichardt W , Päsler M and Wehrhahn C (1988) Color constancy in the honey bee J. Neuroscience 8 156-159.
•	Reichardt WE , Egelhaaf M and Schlögl RW (1988) Movement detectors provide sufficient information for local computation of 2-D velocity field. Naturwiss. 75 313-315.
•	Egelhaaf M , Hausen K , Reichardt WE and Wehrhahn C (1988) Visual course control in flies relies on neuronal computation of object and background motion TINS 11 351-358.
•	Egelhaaf M and Reichardt W (May-1987) Dynamic response properties of movement detectors: theoretical analysis and electrophysiological investigation in the visual system of the fly. Biological Cybernetics 56(2-3) 69-87.
•	Guo A and Reichardt WE (1987) An estimation of the time constant of movement detectors. Naturwiss. 74 91-91.
•	Reichardt WE (1987) Computation of optical motion by movement detectors. Biophys. Chemistry 26 263-278.
•	Reichardt WE (1987) Evaluation of optical motion information by movement detectors. J. Comp. Physiol. A 161 533-547.
•	Reichardt W and Guo A-K (March-1986) Elementary pattern discrimination (Behavioural experiments with the fly Musca domestica). Biological Cybernetics 53(5) 285-306.
•	Reichardt WE (1986) Musterinduziertes Flugverhalten der Fliege Musca domestica. Phys. Bl. 42 159-163.
•	Reichardt WE (1986) Processing of optical information by the visual system of the fly. Vision Res. 26(1) 113-126.
•	Reichardt WE (1985) The visual system of insects. Processing of optical information. Rivista di Biologia 78 9-42.
•	Reichardt WE (1984) Gehirn und Computer. Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, etz 105 1280-1281.
•	Reichardt W , Poggio T and Hausen K (January-1983) Figure-ground discrimination by relative movement in the visual system of the fly: Part II: Towards the neural circuitry Biological Cybernetics 46(Supplement) 1-30.
•	Poggio T and Reichardt W (March-1981) Visual fixation and tracking by flies: Mathematical properties of simple control systems. Biological Cybernetics 40(2) 101-112.
•	Poggio T , Reichardt WE and Hausen K (1981) A neuronal circuitry for relative movement discrimination by the visual system of the fly. Naturwiss. 68 443-446.
•	Reichardt WE (1980) Analogy between hologram formation and computation of relative movement by the visual system of the fly. Naturwiss. 67 411-411.
•	Poggio T and Reichardt WE (1980) On the representation of multi-input systems: Computational properties of polynomial algorithms. Biol. Cybernetics 37 167-186.
•	Reichardt WE and Poggio T (1979) Figure-ground discrimination by relative movement in the visual system of the fly. Part I: Experimental results. Biol. Cybernetics 35 81-100.
•	Reichardt WE (1977) Neuronal cooperativity in the visual system of the fly. Acta Biochim. et Biophys. Acad. Sci. Hung. 12(2) 99-120.
•	Reichardt WE and Poggio T (1977) Visual control of orientation behaviour in the fly. Part I. A quantitative analysis. Quart. Rev. Biophysics 9(3) 311-375.
•	Heimburger L , Poggio T and Reichardt WE (1976) A special class of nonlinear interactions in the visual system of the fly. Biol. Cybernetics 21 103-105.
•	Poggio T and Reichardt WE (1976) control of orientation behaviour in the fly. Part II. Towards the underlying neural interactions. Quart. Rev. Biophysics 9(3) 377-438.
•	Virsik R and Reichardt WE (1976) Detection and tracking of moving objects by the fly Musca domestica. Biol. Cybernetics 23 83-98.
•	Wehrhahn C and Reichardt W (March-1975) Visually induced height orientation of the fly Musca domestica Biological Cybernetics 20(1) 37-50.
•	Reichardt WE and Poggio T (1975) A theory of the pattern induced flight orientation of the fly Musca domestica II. Biol. Cybernetics 18 69-80.
•	Virsik R and Reichardt WE (1974) Tracking of moving objects by the fly Musca domestica. Naturwiss. (61) 132-133.
•	Poggio T and Reichardt W (December-1973) Considerations on models of movement detection Kybernetik 13(4) 223-227.
•	Poggio T and Reichardt W (May-1973) A theory of the pattern induced flight orientation of the fly Musca domestica Kybernetik 12(4) 185-203.
•	Reichardt W (March-1973) Musterinduzierte Flugorientierung: Verhaltens-Versuche an der Fliege Musca domestica Naturwissenschaften 60(3) 122-138.
•	Wehrhahn C and Reichardt WE (1973) Visual orientation of the fly Musca domestica towards a horizontally oriented stripe. Naturwissenschaften 60 203-204.
•	Kirschfeld K and Reichardt W (February-1970) Optomotorische Versuche an Musca mit linear polarisiertem Licht Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B 25(2) 228-228.
•	Beidler LM and Reichardt WE (1970) transduction. A report based on an NRP work session. NRP Bulletin 8 463-463.
•	Scholes J and Reichardt W (June-1969) The quantal content of optomotor stimuli and the electrical responses of receptors in the compound eye of the fly Musca. Kybernetik 6(2) 74-79.
•	Reichardt WE and Wenking H (1969) Optical detection and fixation of objects by fixed flying flies (Musca domestica). Naturwiss. 56 424-425.
•	Reichardt W , Braitenberg V and Weidel G (November-1968) Auslösung von Elementarprozessen durch einzelne Lichtquanten im Fliegenauge: Verhaltensexperimente an der Stubenfliege Musca Kybernetik 5(4) 148-169.
•	Varjú D and Reichardt W (December-1967) Übertragungseigenschaften im Auswertesystem für das Bewegungssehen II Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B 22(12) 1343-1351.
•	Reichardt WE (1965) Optomotor reactions of the beetle Chlorophanus, housefly Musca and the fruitfly Drosophila. NRP Bulletin 3 48-54.
•	Reichardt WE (1965) Rede anlässlich der Einweihung des Neubaus der Abteilung Reichardt des Max-Planck-Instituts für Biologie am 14. Juni 1965 in Tübingen. Mitt. der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 6 332-345.
•	Reichardt WE (1965) Zur Theorie der lateralen nervösen Inhibition im Limulus Komplex-Auge. Progress in Brain Research 17 64-73.
•	Kirschfeld K and Reichardt W (June-1964) Die Verarbeitung stationärer optischer Nachrichten im Komplexauge von Limulus (Ommatidien-Sehfeld und räumliche Verteilung der Inhibition) Kybernetik 2(2) 43-61.
•	Fermi G and Reichardt W (September-1963) Optomotorische Reaktionen der Fliege Musca domestica Kybernetik 2(1) 15-28.
•	Reichardt W and MacGinitie G (April-1962) Zur Theorie der lateralen Inhibition Kybernetik 1(4) 155-165.
•	Reichardt WE (1962) Nervöse Verarbeitung optischer Nachrichten im Facettenauge. der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 96-126.
•	Reichardt W (1962) Nervous integration in the facet eye. Biophys. J. 2 121-143.
•	Reichardt WE (1962) Probleme der Nachrichten-Übertragung und -Verarbeitung im Nervensystem. Hippokrates 33 649-659.