Stereotypical Escape Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans Allows Quantification of Effective Heat Stimulus Level.

A goal of many sensorimotor studies is to quantify the stimulus-behavioral response relation for specific organisms and specific sensory stimuli. This is especially important to do in the context of painful stimuli since most animals in these studies cannot easily communicate to us their perceived l...

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Main Authors: Kawai Leung, Aylia Mohammadi, William S Ryu, Ilya Nemenman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5189946?pdf=render