Coding movement direction by burst firing in electrosensory neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1954-1968

  Khosravi Hashemi, Navid ^a   Fortune, Eric S ^b,c   Chacron, Maurice J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential patterning; Direction selectivity; Neural coding; Weakly electric fish

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FISH; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GYMNOTIFORMES; MESENCEPHALON; MIBEFRADIL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION; NEURONS; NICKEL; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 80054041973     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00116.2011     Document Type: Article

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