... animal species that give rise to number skills across the animal kingdom. Brain evolution Protostomes Deuterostomes Vertebrates Number sense Numerical competence Neural coding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 NI 618/7-1 NI 618/10-1 and NI...

... communication signals, we demonstrate a strong correlation between neural coding strategies and behavioral performance on a discrimination task. Extracellular recordings of pyramidal cells within the electrosensory lateral line lobe of alert fish show two distinct response patterns, either burst discharges...

... with the same exponent for temporal frequencies spanning three orders of magnitude. Thus, our findings suggest that the neural coding strategies used by weakly electric fish perceive the detailed time course of movement envelopes and are adapted to their statistics as found in the natural environment. They also...

... analyses of neural coding at this interface between the sensory afferents and the primary sensory interneurons, using some analytical approaches from information theory and statistics. Neural coding is defined as the mapping between stimuli in the environment and their representation in patterns...

... scaling of neural coding may be necessary for preserving information transmission with decreasing body size. 14 6 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2005 2005 allometry body size bird intrapulmonary chemoreceptors neural coding Biological rates, such as the frequencies...

...-mail: [email protected] 25 01 1999 21 04 1999 © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 electric fish Eigenmannia stimulus estimation signal detection neural coding spike train Establishing a link between the activity of single nerve cells and their performance...