Wind direction coding in the cockroach escape response: Winner does not take all

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3814-3821

  Levi, Rafael ^a,b   Camhi, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cockroach; Directional behavior; Electrical stimulation; Escape behavior; Giant interneurons; Interneurons; Neural code; Winner take all

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INTERNEURON; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

EID: 0034658298     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-10-03814.2000     Document Type: Article

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