Neural Mechanisms of Sensory Information Processing
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This research involves the study sensory information processing                 in the electrosensory system of gymnotiform fish.  Electrosensory               information is used in social communication, such as the jamming                avoidance response (JAR), as well as for the detection and                      identification of objects.  By intracellular labelling of                       physiologically identified neurons, the P.I. can explore                        morphological features and their significance for particular                    tasks in the processing of information.  By tracing anatomical                  projections of identified classes of neurons, the routes and way                stations of pathways along which specific forms of information                  are processed can be determined.  Research efforts will be                      concentrated upon connections from the torus semicircularis and                 tectum opticum of the midbrain to the complex of the nucleus                    electrosensorius (NE) in the pretectum.  Neurons in the torus and               the tectum have more general response properties and are less                   sensitive to specific stimulus features than are neurons in the                 NE.  The higher response specificity and sensitivity of neurons                 in the NE appears to result from extensive neuronal convergence.//
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{'Code': '1185', 'Text': 'SENSORY SYSTEMS'}
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