Sensory control of behavior in electric fish.
The electrosensory system is ideally suited for the integration of behavioral and cellular approaches and, therefore, has led to the most detailed explanations of natural behaviors at the single-cell level. The electric sense shares basic principles in the coding of sensory information with more advanced sensory modalities and thus provides a convenient model system for studying neuronal mechanisms of information processing in general.
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Neurobiology Unit, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego 92093.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D004555:Electric Fish / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*