Simulation and Measurement of the Electric Fields Generated by Weakly Electric Fish
Abstract
The weakly electric fish, Gnathonemus peters;;, explores its environment by gener(cid:173) ating pulsed elecbic fields and detecting small pertwbations in the fields resulting from nearby objects. Accordingly, the fISh detects and discriminates objects on the basis of a sequence of elecbic "images" whose temporal and spatial properties depend on the tim(cid:173) ing of the fish's electric organ discharge and its body position relative to objects in its en(cid:173) vironmenl We are interested in investigating how these fish utilize timing and body-po(cid:173) sition during exploration to aid in object discrimination. We have developed a fmite-ele(cid:173) ment simulation of the fish's self-generated electric fields so as to reconstruct the elec(cid:173) trosensory consequences of body position and electric organ discharge timing in the fish. This paper describes this finite-element simulation system and presents preliminary elec(cid:173) tric field measurements which are being used to tune the simulation.
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Rasnow et al. "Simulation and Measurement of the Electric Fields Generated by Weakly Electric Fish." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1988.Markdown
[Rasnow et al. "Simulation and Measurement of the Electric Fields Generated by Weakly Electric Fish." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1988.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1988/rasnow1988neurips-simulation/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{rasnow1988neurips-simulation,
title = {{Simulation and Measurement of the Electric Fields Generated by Weakly Electric Fish}},
author = {Rasnow, Brian and Assad, Christopher and Nelson, Mark E. and Bower, James M.},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1988},
pages = {436-443},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1988/rasnow1988neurips-simulation/}
}