Coding of stimuli by ampullary afferents in
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Coding of stimuli by ampullary afferents in Gnathonemus petersii 1 2 3 J. Engelmann*, S. Gertz, J. Goulet, A. Schuh and G. von der Emde 4 5 6 University of Bonn, Institute for Zoology, Neuroethology Sensory Ecology , 7 Endenicher Allee 11-13, 53115 Bonn, Germany 8 Physik Department, TU München and Bernstein Center for Computational 9 Neuroscience, Garching, Germany 10 University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Biology, Active Sensing, Universitätsstr. 10, 33615 11 Bielefeld 12 4) Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, 13 P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands 14 15 16 17 *To whom correspondence should be addressed 18 19 e-mail:JE: [email protected] 20 21 Running head: Sensory encoding of the passive electrical world. 22 Number of pages: 32 23 Number of figures: 9 24 Number of tables: 0 25 26 27
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