Coping with flow: behavior, neurophysiology and modeling of the fish lateral line system

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 106, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 627-642

  Mogdans, Joachim ^a   Bleckmann, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole; Hydrodynamic; Mechanoreception; Multimodality; Water flow

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NEURONS;

BIOMIMETIC APPROACHES; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; DIPOLE; DIPOLE SOURCES; MECHANORECEPTION; MULTI-MODALITY; SENSORY INFORMATION; WATER FLOWS;

FISH;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOPHYSICS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; FISH; HISTOLOGY; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STIMULATION; WATER FLOW;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; FISHES; LATERAL LINE SYSTEM; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84877303419     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-012-0525-3     Document Type: Review

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