3-Dimensional scene perception during active electrolocation in a weakly electric pulse fish

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2010, Pages

  von der Emde, Gerhard ^a   Behr, Katharina ^a   Bouton, Béatrice ^a   Engelmann, Jacob ^a,b   Fetz, Steffen ^a   Folde, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental imaging distance; Object feature; Object recognition; Rotational invariance; Size constancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956096185     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00026     Document Type: Article

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