Temporal Coding of Species Recognition Signals in An Electric Fish
- 3 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 212 (4490) , 85-87
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7209524
Abstract
An electric fish in the African family Mormyridae recognizes members of its own species by "listening" to electric organ discharges, which are species-specific signatures. Reactions of fish in the field and of individual electroreceptors to both normal and modified computer-synthesized discharges emphasize the importance of the waveform (time-domain cues) in species recognition.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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