Table of Contents
Chapter I: Introduction . ... 1
The Mormyrid Weakly Electric Fish: Gnathonemus petersii ... ..3
Granular Cell Integration in the Mormyromast System ....7
The Weakly Electric Fish as an Animal Model ..11
Modeling in the NEURON simulation environment .. ...19
Glutamatergic Synapses .....30
Chapter III: Results . .......34
Voltage-dependent amplification of granular cell inputs .... .91
Intrinsic control of burst offset .. .92
Extrinsic control of burst offset ..94
Plausibility of maximum ionic conductances . .95
Consequences of the burst duration code . ..96