Electroreceptor neuron dynamics shape information transmission

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 673-678

  Chacron, Maurice J ^a   Maler, Leonard ^b   Bastian, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRORECEPTOR; INFORMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TUNING CURVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC ORGAN; GYMNOTIFORMES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 17844380218     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1433     Document Type: Article

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