The 'novelty response' in an electric fish: Response properties and habituation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 115-128

  Post, Nils ^a   Von Der Emde, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Defensive response; Electric organ discharge; New stimuli; Orienting response; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC FISH; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033435137     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(99)00153-5     Document Type: Article

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