Temporal constraints on visually directed C-start responses: Behavioral and physiological correlates

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 148-158

  Canfield, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

C start; Escape; Fish; Mauthner cell; Startle response; Temporal integration; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CICHLID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAUTHNER CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GOLDFISH; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STARTLE REACTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

CARASSIUS AURATUS; CICHLIDAE;

EID: 0037269085     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069751     Document Type: Article

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