title: Taking a close look at electrosensing.
abstract: The brain of the brown ghost knifefish, which uses electric fields to "see", processes electrical signals in a way that is similar to how our brains interpret visual and auditory signals.
authors.affiliation: Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United States.
authors.forename: Tatyana O
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Sharpee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain; D004555:Electric Fish; D010465:Perception
keywords: Apteronotus leptorhynchus; computational biology; electrosensory; natural stimuli; neural coding; neuroscience; systems biology; weakly electric fish