From sparks to spikes: Information processing in the electrosensory systems of fish

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 437-443

  Sawtell, Nathaniel B ^a   Williams, Alan ^a   Bell, Curtis C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRORECEPTOR; FISH; GYMNOTIFORMES; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SENSORY SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, SENSORY;

EID: 23044466147     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.06.006     Document Type: Review

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