Active sensing associated with spatial learning reveals memory-based attention in an electric fish

JJ Jun, A Longtin, L Maler - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Active sensing behaviors reveal what an animal is attending to and how it changes with
learning. Gymnotus sp., a gymnotiform weakly electric fish, generates an electric organ …

Enhanced sensory sampling precedes self-initiated locomotion in an electric fish

JJ Jun, A Longtin, L Maler - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Cortical activity precedes self-initiated movements by several seconds in mammals; this
observation has led into inquiries on the nature of volition. Preparatory neural activity is …

Automatic realistic real time stimulation/recording in weakly electric fish: long time behavior characterization in freely swimming fish and stimuli discrimination

CG Forlim, RD Pinto - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Weakly electric fish are unique model systems in neuroethology, that allow experimentalists
to non-invasively, access, central nervous system generated spatio-temporal electric …

Long-term behavioral tracking of freely swimming weakly electric fish

JJ Jun, A Longtin, L Maler - Journal of visualized experiments …, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Long-term behavioral tracking can capture and quantify natural animal behaviors, including
those occurring infrequently. Behaviors such as exploration and social interactions can be …

Real-time localization of moving dipole sources for tracking multiple free-swimming weakly electric fish

JJ Jun, A Longtin, L Maler - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In order to survive, animals must quickly and accurately locate prey, predators, and
conspecifics using the signals they generate. The signal source location can be estimated …

Nonstationary stochastic dynamics underlie spontaneous transitions between active and inactive behavioral states

A Melanson, JF Mejias, JJ Jun, L Maler, A Longtin - Eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
The neural basis of spontaneous movement generation is a fascinating open question. Long-
term monitoring of fish, swimming freely in a constant sensory environment, has revealed a …

Temporal code-driven stimulation: definition and application to electric fish signaling

A Lareo, CG Forlim, RD Pinto, P Varona… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Closed-loop activity-dependent stimulation is a powerful methodology to assess information
processing in biological systems. In this context, the development of novel protocols, their …

Individual discrimination of freely swimming pulse-type electric fish from electrode array recordings

P Matias, JFW Slaets, RD Pinto - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
Pulse-type weakly electric fishes communicate through electrical discharges with a
stereotyped waveform, varying solely the interval between pulses according to the …

Non-parametric change point detection for spike trains

T Mosqueiro, M Strube-Bloss, R Tuma… - … and Systems (CISS), 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two techniques of non-parametric change point detection are applied to two different
neuroscience datasets. In the first dataset, we show how the multivariate non-parametric …

Analysis of electroreception with temporal code-driven stimulation

Á Lareo, CG Forlim, RD Pinto, P Varona… - … : 14th International Work …, 2017 - Springer
Temporal code-driven stimulation is a new closed-loop stimulation method for information
processing research in biological systems. The biological signal is processed and an event …