Fish Geometry and Electric Organ Discharge Determine Functional Organization of the Electrosensory Epithelium
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Fish Geometry and Electric Organ Discharge Determine Functional Organization of the Electrosensory Epithelium
Auteurs : Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck ;
Eduardo Federico Pedraja ;
Esteban Cilleruelo ;
Adriana Migliaro ;
Pedro Aguilera ;
Angel Ariel Caputi ;
Ruben BudelliSource :
RBID : PMC:3214058
Abstract
Active electroreception in Gymnotus omarorum is a sensory modality that perceives the changes that nearby objects cause in a self generated electric field. The field is emitted as repetitive stereotyped pulses that stimulate skin electroreceptors. Differently from mormyriformes electric fish, gymnotiformes have an electric organ distributed along a large portion of the body, which fires sequentially. As a consequence shape and amplitude of both, the electric field generated and the image of objects, change during the electric pulse. To study how G. omarorum constructs a perceptual representation, we developed a computational model that allows the determination of the self-generated field and the electric image. We verify and use the model as a tool to explore image formation in diverse experimental circumstances. We show how the electric images of objects change in shape as a function of time and position, relative to the fish's body. We propose a theoretical framework about the organization of the different perceptive tasks made by electroreception: 1) At the head region, where the electrosensory mosaic presents an electric fovea, the field polarizing nearby objects is coherent and collimated. This favors the high resolution sampling of images of small objects and perception of electric color. Besides, the high sensitivity of the fovea allows the detection and tracking of large faraway objects in rostral regions. 2) In the trunk and tail region a multiplicity of sources illuminate different regions of the object, allowing the characterization of the shape and position of a large object. In this region, electroreceptors are of a unique type and capacitive detection should be based in the pattern of the afferents response. 3) Far from the fish, active electroreception is not possible but the collimated field is suitable to be used for electrocommunication and detection of large objects at the sides and caudally.
Url: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027470
PubMed: 22096578
PubMed Central: 3214058
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