Central mechanisms of temporal analysis in the knollenorgan pathway of mormyrid electric fish

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1311-1318

  Xu Friedman, Matthew A ^a   Hopkins, Carl D ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric organ discharge; Knollenorgan; Mormyrid; Time coding; Waveform

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033058578     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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