Dominance in Habitat Preference and Diurnal Explorative Behavior of the Weakly Electric Fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus [PDF]
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2019 Electrocommunication and -localization behaviors of weakly electric fish have been studied extensively in the lab, mostly by means of short-term observations on constrained fish.
Till Raab +3 more
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The Electric Sense of Weakly Electric Fish [PDF]
Annual Review of Physiology, 1984 Recent studies of electroreception have been particularly successful in three different areas: Electroreceptors are tuned to the dominant frequency of the animal's EOD, and their tuning follows natural and experimentally induced shifts in EOD frequency.
W, Heiligenberg, J, Bastian
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Subtractive, divisive and non-monotonic gain control in feedforward nets linearized by noise and delays [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2014 The control of input-to-output mappings, or gain control, is one of the main strategies used by neural networks for the processing and gating of information.
Jorge F Mejias +5 more
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Delay-Dependent Response in Weakly Electric Fish under Closed-Loop Pulse Stimulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In this paper, we apply a real time activity-dependent protocol to study how freely swimming weakly electric fish produce and process the timing of their own electric signals. Specifically, we address this study in the elephant fish, Gnathonemus petersii,
Caroline Garcia Forlim +3 more
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Social interactions between live and artificial weakly electric fish: Electrocommunication and locomotor behavior of Mormyrus rume proboscirostris towards a mobile dummy fish. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Mormyrid weakly electric fish produce short, pulse-type electric organ discharges for actively probing their environment and to communicate with conspecifics.
Martin Worm +2 more
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Neural correlations enable invariant coding and perception of natural stimuli in weakly electric fish [PDF]
eLife, 2016 Neural representations of behaviorally relevant stimulus features displaying invariance with respect to different contexts are essential for perception. However, the mechanisms mediating their emergence and subsequent refinement remain poorly understood ...
Michael G Metzen +2 more
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Electric pulse characteristics can enable species recognition in African weakly electric fish species [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Communication is key to a wide variety of animal behaviours and multiple modalities are often involved in this exchange of information from sender to receiver.
Rebecca Nagel +4 more
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Daily changes in the electric behavior of weakly electric fish naturally persist in constant darkness and are socially synchronized [PDF]
Biology Open, 2018 Daily rhythms allow anticipation of changes and allocation of energy to better cope with predictable events. Rhythms in behavior result from a complex combination of physiological processes timed by the nervous system and synchronized with external ...
Adriana Migliaro +3 more
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Male-mediated species recognition among African weakly electric fishes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Effective communication among sympatric species is often instrumental for behavioural isolation, where the failure to successfully discriminate between potential mates could lead to less fit hybrid offspring.
Rebecca Nagel +5 more
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Peripheral sensory coding through oscillatory synchrony in weakly electric fish [PDF]
eLife, 2015 Adaptations to an organism's environment often involve sensory system modifications. In this study, we address how evolutionary divergence in sensory perception relates to the physiological coding of stimuli.
Christa A Baker +2 more
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