Directionality and frequency tuning of primary saccular afferents of a vocal fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus)

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 631-641

  Weeg, M S ^a   Fay, R R ^b   Bass, A H ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Communication; Directional encoding; Hearing; Octavolateralis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY NERVE; SOUND DETECTION; VESTIBULE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; HEARING; MALE; MOTION; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0036771036     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-002-0338-2     Document Type: Article

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