Neuronal encoding of ultrasonic sound by a fish

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2590-2597

  Plachta, Dennis T T ^a,d   Song, Jiakun ^a,c   Halvorsen, Michele B ^a   Popper, Arthur N ^a,b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FISH; LATERAL LEMNISCUS; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND; VENTRAL ROOT; WHALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FISHES; NEURONS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 2442622204     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01200.2003     Document Type: Article

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