... electrosensory lobe of mormyrid fish. This plasticity is expressed when presynaptic activation is associated with a characteristically broad,postsynaptic action potential, lasting 7-15 ms, occurring within a window of up to 60-80 ms following synaptic activation. Since the site of plastic change is presumably...

...Leonel Gómez; Ruben Budelli; Kirsty Grant; Angel A. Caputi SUMMARY Afferent responses to the fish's own electric organ discharge were explored in the electrosensory lobe of the mormyrid fish Gnathonemus petersii . In order to understand the neural encoding of natural sensory images,responses were...