Signal analysis in the communication of a weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens (Gymnotiformes).

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-21149

Kramer, Bernd

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Item type:	Book section
ISBN:	981-02-4164-X
Title of Book:	Neuronal coding of perceptual systems
Publisher:	World Scientific
Place of Publication:	Singapore
Other Series:	Series on Biophysics and Biocybernetics
Volume:	9
Page Range:	pp. 314-333
Date:	2001
Institutions:	Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Alumni or Retired > Verhaltensbiologie und Verhaltensphysiologie (Prof. Dr. Bernd Kramer)
Dewey Decimal Classification:	500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Unknown
Created at the University of Regensburg:	Yes
Item ID:	2114

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Abstract

Eigenmannia virescens is a South American freshwater species with an electric organ discharge (EOD) of the wave type. This social fish's EOD is masked by the intense noise from close-by conspecifics. In spite of this, Eigenmannia detects external signals at lowest thresholds for a vertebrate octavolateralis sensory system; furthermore, Eigenmannia discriminates between stimulus waveforms which is ...