Projects / Programmes
Behavioral and electrophisiological studies of olfactory coding in catfish
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
1.03.01 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Biology |
Zoology and zoophysiology |
Code |
Science |
Field |
B640 |
Biomedical sciences |
Neurology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology |
B380 |
Biomedical sciences |
Animal ethology and psychology |
ethology, nevroethology, chemical senses, olfaction, olfactory coding, fishes
Researchers (2)
no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
1. |
11169 |
PhD Janko Božič |
Biology |
Researcher |
1999 - 2001 |
320 |
2. |
01255 |
PhD Tine-Borut Valentinčič |
Biology |
Head |
1999 - 2001 |
220 |
Abstract
Correlated behavioral and electrophysiological experiments can provide an insight into olfactory coding. Conditioned responses uncovered that catfish either discriminate (perceive differently), do not discriminate (perceive equally), or sometimes do and other times do not discriminate (perceive similarly) chemical stimuli. To reveal if equally, differently and similarly perceived stimuli have equal, different and similar codes; respectively, electrophysiological responses of single olfactory receptor cells to the respective pairs of stimuli will be tested.