Taking a close look at electrosensing
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.
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
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| author | Tatyana O Sharpee |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7f80a0840fb464f81a6ef0a8137bbbc2022-12-22T02:05:05ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2016-04-01510.7554/eLife.16209Taking a close look at electrosensingTatyana O Sharpee0Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United StatesThe 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.https://elifesciences.org/articles/16209Apteronotus leptorhynchusweakly electric fishelectrosensoryneural codingnatural stimuli |
| spellingShingle | Tatyana O Sharpee Taking a close look at electrosensing eLife Apteronotus leptorhynchus weakly electric fish electrosensory neural coding natural stimuli |
| title | Taking a close look at electrosensing |
| title_full | Taking a close look at electrosensing |
| title_fullStr | Taking a close look at electrosensing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Taking a close look at electrosensing |
| title_short | Taking a close look at electrosensing |
| title_sort | taking a close look at electrosensing |
| topic | Apteronotus leptorhynchus weakly electric fish electrosensory neural coding natural stimuli |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/16209 |
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