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Section IV. Electrosensation: The Jamming Avoidance Response (JAR: spoken as J. A. R., not 'jar')

Review.

Paper IVA.

Paper IVB.

Section II. Neurons and Behavior: How does Neuronal Activity Influence Behavioral Detection and Discrimination

Discrimination and Perception of Visual Motion (A)
Paper VA.

Discrimination and Perception of Visual Motion: (B)
Paper VB
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Detection of Tactile Stimuli: Neuronal and Psychophysical Thresholds
Paper VC.

Correlation between Neuronal Activity and Auditory Localization Behavior in Primates
Paper VD.

Correlation between Neuronal Performance and Auditory Spatial Acuity in the Barn Owl
Paper VE


Earlier Sections

Section I. Barn owl audition

Review. PaperA. PaperB. PaperC.

Section II. Echolocation in FM bats

Review. Paper II A. Paper II B. Paper II C (pt1) ; Paper II C (pt2).

Bat echolocation calls

A good, but simple, introduction including calls and their spectra Please visit this site: it will give you a lot of preliminary information presented in a fun way. Concentrate on the bat stuff, though the dolphin info is pretty good as well. And there's a fascinating bit of Scientific History in there.

Library of bat calls at www.batcalls.org

Cynthia Moss's Bat Lab at U Md.: Insect capture movies and more

Article by Jim Simmons (PDF) with links to IR movies.

Section III. Depth Perception using Binocular Disparity

Paper III A. Paper III B.

Section IV. Electrosensation in Weakly Electric Fish

Review

High-Scoring SGRs

SGR3
NL-->ICc projections: SGx; SGy. Neither group was perfect, but they got the vast majority of things right. Both scored full points. It's not just the SGR: there will be questions in the mid-term based on this exercise.NOTE: Don't just copy these, they have mistakes. And the mistakes are pretty characteristic, so...BUT, you are free to copy their format or their way of showing projections, or their legends that indicate clearly which color means what, or the way they indicate spatial orientations or axes...