Active electric imaging: Body-object interplay and object's "electric texture"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Caputi, Ángel A ^a   Aguilera, Pedro A ^a   Pereira, Ana Carolina ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GEOMETRY; GYMNOTIFORMES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RETINA FOVEA; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRICITY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALIA; GYMNOTIFORMES;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRICITY; GYMNOTIFORMES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 80051857203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022793     Document Type: Article

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