Central Nervous Physiology of the Lateral Line, with Special Reference to Cartilaginous Fishes

Fishes and aquatic amphibians use the mechanoreceptive lateral line to detect weak water currents (Dijkgraaf 1963; Bleckmann 1986; Kalmijn 1988) and water surface waves (Schwartz 1971; Bleckmann 1988). Electrophysiological studies have shown that the pattern of impulses carried by primary lateral line afferents encodes information about the nature of the peripheral stimulus with respect to duration, amplitude, frequency, and phase (see Munz Chapter 14). If the activity of several neuromasts, which may differ with respect to the alignment of their most sensitive axis, is integrated over time and space, the additional information of stimulus direction and, perhaps, stimulus distance may be obtained. Thus the peripheral lateral line provides the brain with all cues necessary to evaluate a complex wave stimulus with respect to stimulus origin, stimulus duration, and stimulus type.

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