A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how the nervous system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural environment and how it uses that information to guide and coordinate behavior necessary for reproduction and survival. The electrosensory systems of weakly electric teleost fishes and those of nonteleost fishes are attractive systems for addressing basic questions about neuronal information processing and its relationship to natural behavior. Comparative approaches in these fishes have led to the identification of fundamental mechanisms that have shaped the adaptive evolution of sensory systems across animal taxa. Understanding how sensory systems encode and integrate information about the natural world has far reaching implications for advancing our knowledge in the basic biomedical sciences and in understanding how the nervous system has evolved to control behavior.

The primary goal of this book is to provide a comparative perspectiveon the topic of electroreception and review some of the fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and electromotor systems. Although totally independent, this book follows from volume 21 in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research series, Electroreception (Bullock, T. H., Hopkins, C. D., Popper, A. N., and Fay, R. R., 2005, Springer-Verlag, New York).

A comparative view of electroreception. Looks at the evolution of the electrosensory and electromotor systems in different organisms. Answers basic questions about neuronal information processing and behavior.

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Bruce A. Carlson is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph A. Sisneros is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle

Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park

Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola

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This book provides a comparative perspective on the topic of electroreception and reviews some of the fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and electromotor systems to understand how the nervous system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural environment

A Brief History of Electrogenesis and Electroreception in Fishes

Bruce A. Carlson and Joseph A. Sisneros

The Development and Evolution of Lateral Line Electroreceptors: Insights from Comparative Molecular Approaches

Clare V. H. Baker

Electrosensory Transduction: Comparisons Across Structure, Afferent Response Properties, and Cellular Physiology

Duncan B. Leitch and David Julius

The Evolution and Development of Electric Organs

Jason R. Gallant

Biophysical Basis of Electric Signal Diversity

Michael R. Markham

Hormonal Influences on Social Behavior in South American Weakly Electric Fishes

Ana C. Silva

Evolutionary Drivers of Electric Signal Diversity

Rüdiger Krahe

**Using Control Theory to Characterize Active Sensing in Weakly Electric Fishes**

Sarah A. Stamper, Manu S. Madhav, Noah J. Cowan, and Eric S. Fortune

Envelope Coding and Processing: Implications for Perception and Behavior

Michael G. Metzen and Maurice J. Chacron

Evolution of Submillisecond Temporal Coding in Vertebrate Electrosensory and Auditory Systems

Bruce A. Carlson

Influences of Motor Systems on Electrosensory Processing

Krista Perks and Nathaniel B. Sawtell

Active Electrolocation and Spatial Learning

Sarah Nicola Jung and Jacob Engelmann

Bruce A. Carlson is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis

Joseph A. Sisneros is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, Seattle

Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago, Chicago

Inhalt
A Brief History of Electrogenesis and Electroreception in Fishes.- The Development and Evolution of Lateral Line Electroreceptors: Insights from Comparative Molecular Approaches.- Electrosensory Transduction: Comparisons Across Structure, Afferent Response Properties, and Cellular Physiology.- The Evolution and Development of Electric Organs.- Biophysical Basis of Electric Signal Diversity.- Hormonal Influences on Social Behavior in South American Weakly Electric Fishes.- Evolutionary Drivers of Electric Signal Diversity.- Using Control Theory to Characterize Active Sensing in Weakly Electric Fishes.- Envelope Coding and Processing: Implications for Perception and Behavior.- Evolution of Sub-millisecond Temporal Coding in Vertebrate Electrosensory and Auditory Systems.- Influences of Motor Systems on Electrosensory Processing.- Active Electrolocation and Spatial Learning.