Electric Fishes
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Electric Fishes
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Author : P. Moller
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1995-07-31
Electric Fishes written by P. Moller and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-31 with Science categories.
This book covers in detail the development and use of the electric sense in fishes. Contents include coverage of taxonomy of the species involved, electric organs and electroreception, hormones and behaviour and the role of other sensory systems in conjunction with the electric sense. The book will be of great value to fish biologists, physiologists, evolutionary scientists, animal behaviourists and aquatic scientists.
The Shocking History Of Electric Fishes
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Author : Stanley Finger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-08
The Shocking History Of Electric Fishes written by Stanley Finger and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-08 with Medical categories.
This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book examines the importance of electric fishes in science and medicine and how three species in particular shaped neurophysiology. Anchored in the philosophy and science of past epochs, it is the story of one of Nature's greatest puzzles. Over a long and tortuous path, it focuses on how some numbing fishes helped to make physiology modern.
Spark From The Deep
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Author : William J. Turkel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-09
Spark From The Deep written by William J. Turkel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Nature categories.
How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.
The Shocking History Of Electric Fishes
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Author : Stanley Finger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Shocking History Of Electric Fishes written by Stanley Finger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Electric fishes categories.
This title looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes became electrical, and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat torpedo rays common to the Mediterranean, the electric catfishes of Africa, and an eel from South America.--[Source inconnue].
Electric Animals
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Author : Natalie Lunis
language : en
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Electric Animals written by Natalie Lunis and has been published by Bearport Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Introduces the way animals use electricity to survive in the wild.
Principles Of Electrolocation And Jamming Avoidance In Electric Fish
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Author : W. Heiligenberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Principles Of Electrolocation And Jamming Avoidance In Electric Fish written by W. Heiligenberg and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
This booklet, together with the following two,-which are well under way and will succeed it at intervals of, we hope, no more than six months, sets the stage for a new editorial enterprise in the field of brain science. The accent is on the functional aspects of brains rather than on their develop ment, hence the title of the series. The central question being how neural activity is related to behavior, there will be, naturally, a wide scatter of sub jects, and Heiligenberg's monograph on electric fish may be considered typ ical of the expected standard deviation from the mean. Deviations in other directions may go as far as the sensory neuron, or brain theory, or aphasia, or farther. The next contributions planned for the series are: Precht, Neuronal Operations in the Vestibular System, and Movshon, Genes and Environment in the Development of the Visual Cortex. Our aim is to ap proach the central area by means of something like an evolving handbook of brain science. The individual monographs should describe promising and successful approaches, even in areas where the last word is far from being said. Besides originaI monographs and compounds of the author's own published papers, reviews are also we1come if they are more than the sum of the parts. The publisher promises speedy publication, and the editors will see that the manuscripts will be readable as well as interesting. Tübingen, Summer 1977 V.
Electric Fish
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Author : Caroline Arnold
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow &Company
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Electric Fish written by Caroline Arnold and has been published by William Morrow &Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Electric fishes categories.
Discusses the fish that produce an electric current with a part of their body and others that are sensitive to electricity.
Neural Nets In Electric Fish
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Author : Walter Heiligenberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1991-10-24
Neural Nets In Electric Fish written by Walter Heiligenberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-10-24 with Medical categories.
Heiligenberg's pioneering research describes the behavior of one species, the jamming avoidance response in the electric fish Eigenmannia, providing a rich mine of data that documents the first vertebrate example of the workings of the entire behavioral system from sensory input to motor output. Neural Nets in Electric Fish presents the principles and detailed results that have emerged from this exciting program. Heiligenberg's introduction familiarizes the reader with the unusual sensory modality electroreception, demonstrating the rationale and the motive behind the research. The text, which includes many helpful new pedagogical graphs, takes up the behavioral work done in the early 1980s, from explorations of peripheral receptors, the hindbrain, the midbrain, and finally diencephalon, to the most recent studies of motor output. Neural Nets in Electric Fish clearly describes Heiligenberg's analysis of the complex nature of the electrical stimulus delivered to Eigenmannia during jamming avoidance, and explains the novel two-parameter notation he uses to represent the different stages in information processing, giving many examples of the notation's power. The book relates all known behavioral phenomena of the jamming avoidance response to specific properties of the underlying neural network organization and draws interesting parallels between the electric sense and other sensory processing systems, such as the barn owl's sound localization system, motion detection systems in vision, and bat echolocation.
Electric Fishes Of The Continental Waters Of America
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Author : Francisco Mago Leccia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Electric Fishes Of The Continental Waters Of America written by Francisco Mago Leccia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Electric organs in fishes categories.
Multimodal Torus In The Weakly Electric Fish Eigenmannia
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Author : Henning Scheich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Multimodal Torus In The Weakly Electric Fish Eigenmannia written by Henning Scheich and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Medical categories.
Ever since the behavioral work of Lissrnann (1958), who showed that the weak electric discharges of some families of fish (hitherto considered useless for prey capture or for scaring away enemies) are part of a strange sensory system, these fish have attracted attention from biologists. The subsequent discovery of the electroreceptors in the skin of gymnotids and mormyrids (Bullock et al. 1961; Fessard and Szabo 1961) and the evidence that the ampullae of Lorenzini of nonelectric sharks and rays are also electro receptors (Digkgraaf and Kalmijn 1962) was a start for a lively branch of physiological, anatomical, and behavioral research. Many fmdings of general importance for these fields have made the case to which extremes the performance of the central and peri pheral nervous systems can be driven. Among those fmdings is the temporal accuracy of the pacemaker of some high-frequency fish which controls the electric organ, pro bably the most accurate biological clock (coefficient of variation