Multisensory enhancement of electromotor responses to a single moving object

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2919-2930

  Pluta, Scott R ^a   Kawasaki, Masashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrosensory; Fish; Integration; Mechanosensory; Motion sensing; Multimodal; Niger; Novelty response; Object recognition; Supralinear

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 54349093797     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.016154     Document Type: Article

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