Bursting neurons and ultrasound avoidance in crickets

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Marsat, Gary ^a   Pollack, Gerald S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burst; Feature extraction; Insect flight; Phonotaxis; Predator avoidance; Sensory coding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEETLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CRICKET; DEPOLARIZATION; INSECT; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; LOCUST; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDATION; PRESSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84865190302     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00095     Document Type: Article

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