Prey capture in zebrafish larvae serves as a model to study cognitive functions

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Muto, Akira ^a   Kawakami, Koichi ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium imaging; GCaMP; Perception; Prey capture; Recognition (psychology); Vision; Visual cognition; Visual perception; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREY CAPTURE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SWIMMING; VISION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 84878454540     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00110     Document Type: Article

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