Research article beyond the Jamming Avoidance Response: Weakly electric fish respond to the envelope of social electrosensory signals

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 4196-4207

  Stamper, Sarah A ^a   Madhav, Manu S ^b   Cowan, Noah J ^b   Fortune, Eric S ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenmannia; Electrosensory system; Second order statistics

Indexed keywords

EIGENMANNIA; EIGENMANNIA VIRESCENS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GYMNOTIFORMES; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC ORGAN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GYMNOTIFORMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84869158517     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.076513     Document Type: Article

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