Timing actions to avoid refractoriness: A simple solution for streaming sensory signals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Nogueira, Javier ^a,b   CaputiÁ, Ángel Ariel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NONHUMAN; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY GATING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TIME PERCEPTION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTRIC ORGAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR; STIMULATION; TIME;

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ION CHANNEL GATING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960337779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022159     Document Type: Article

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