Directional Hearing by the Mauthner System
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Robert c. Eaton E. P. O. Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Co. 80309 We provide a computational description of the function of the Mauthner system. This is the brainstem circuit which initiates faststart escapes in teleost fish in response to sounds. Our simulations, using back propagation in a realistically constrained feedforward network, have generated hypotheses which are directly interpretable in terms of the activity of the auditory nerve fibers, the principle cells of the system and their associated inhibitory neurons.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993