Two-dimensional receptive fields of midbrain lateral line units in the goldfish, Carassius auratus

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 197, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 827-837

  Voges, Kai ^a,b   Bleckmann, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic stimulation; Lateral line system; Object localization; Sensory processing; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027949492     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-011-0645-6     Document Type: Article

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