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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 215, 期 23, 页码 4196-4207出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.076513
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Eigenmannia; electrosensory system; second-order statistics
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资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [IOS-0817918, CMMI-0941674, CISE-0845749]
- Office of Naval Research [N000140910531]
- NSF
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [0845749] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Recent studies have shown that central nervous system neurons in weakly electric fish respond to artificially constructed electrosensory envelopes, but the behavioral relevance of such stimuli is unclear. Here we investigate the possibility that social context creates envelopes that drive behavior. When Eigenmannia virescens are in groups of three or more, the interactions between their pseudo-sinusoidal electric fields can generate. social envelopes'. We developed a simple mathematical prediction for how fish might respond to such social envelopes. To test this prediction, we measured the responses of E. virescens to stimuli consisting of two sinusoids, each outside the range of the Jamming Avoidance Response (JAR), that when added to the fish's own electric field produced low-frequency (below 10. Hz) social envelopes. Fish changed their electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency in response to these envelopes, which we have termed the Social Envelope Response (SER). In 99% of trials, the direction of the SER was consistent with the mathematical prediction. The SER was strongest in response to the lowest initial envelope frequency tested (2. Hz) and depended on stimulus amplitude. The SER generally resulted in an increase of the envelope frequency during the course of a trial, suggesting that this behavior may be a mechanism for avoiding low-frequency social envelopes. Importantly, the direction of the SER was not predicted by the superposition of two JAR responses: the SER was insensitive to the amplitude ratio between the sinusoids used to generate the envelope, but was instead predicted by the sign of the difference of difference frequencies.
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