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Encoding of social signals in all three electrosensory pathways of Eigenmannia virescens.

In English

Författare

  • Anna Stöckl
  • Fabian Sinz
  • Jan Benda
  • Jan Grewe

Summary, in English

Extracting complementary features in parallel pathways is a widely used strategy for a robust representation of sensory signals. Weakly electric fish offer the rare opportunity to study complementary encoding of social signals in all of its electrosensory pathways. Electrosensory information is conveyed in three parallel pathways: two receptor types of the tuberous (active) system and one receptor type of the ampullary (passive) system. Modulations of the fish's own electric field are sensed by these receptors and used in navigation, prey-detection and communication. We studied the neuronal representation of electric communication signals (called chirps) in the ampullary and the two tuberous pathways of Eigenmannia virescens. We first characterized different kinds of chirps observed in behavioral experiments. Since Eigenmannia chirps simultaneously drive all three types of receptors, we studied their responses in in vivo electrophysiological recordings. Our results demonstrate that different electroreceptor types encode different aspects of the stimuli and each appears best suited to convey information about a certain chirp type. A decoding analysis of single neurons and small populations shows that this specialization leads to a complementary representation of information in the tuberous and ampullary receptors. This suggests that a potential readout mechanism should combine information provided by the parallel processing streams to improve chirp detectability.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2076-2091

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volym

112

Issue

9

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

American Physiological Society

Ämne

  • Zoology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0022-3077