title: Sensory control of behavior in electric fish.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Neurobiology Unit, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego 92093.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Heiligenberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D004555:Electric Fish / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*