Modeling electrosensory and mechanosensory images during the predatory behavior of weakly electric fish

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 199-210

  Nelson, Mark E ^a,d   MacIver, Malcolm A ^b   Coombs, Sheryl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipole; Electrolocation; Electroreception; Electrosensory; Lateral line; Mechanosensory; Natural images; Prey capture; Sensory ecology; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONDUCTANCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRORECEPTOR; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGING; IMPEDANCE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PREDATION; PREY; PREY SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; TIME; VIDEORECORDER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DAPHNIA; ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC FISH; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

APTERONOTUS ALBIFRONS; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; ELECTRIC FISH; INSECTA;

EID: 0036057506     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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