A stimulus generating system for studying wind sensation in the American cockroach

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Rinberg, Dima ^a,b   Davidowitz, Hanan ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

American cockroach; Cercal system; Escape response; Optical fiber; Periplaneta americana; Wind detector; Wind generation; Wind measurement; Wind stimulus

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FIBER OPTICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN SENSATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WIND;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; MALE; PERIPLANETA; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSATION; SENSE ORGANS; TIME FACTORS; WIND;

EID: 0037111016     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00192-9     Document Type: Article

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