Abstract
Two different kinds of mechanoreceptive hairs (smooth and feathered) on the second antennae of the freshwater crayfish, Orconectes virilis, have been investigated for their stimulus coding propertics. These mechanoreceptors show a great deal of non-linear behaviour both in threshold and in directionality. An effective appraoch for the investigation of such systems is noise analysis in the frequency domain. This method has been used here to calculate zero-, first- and second-order kernels. Sensory cells reveal different first- and second-order kernels, depending on which type of hair is being stimulated. The first-order kernel has a pronounced peak in the frequency response at 110 Hz if a feathered hair is stimulated and at 60 Hz if a smooth hair is stimulated. The second-order kernel shows a number of pronounced peaks in the frequency response between 40 and 110 Hz, but only if a feathered hair is stimulated. Smooth hair stimulation results in less sharp peaks but in higher gain for the same range of stimulus frequencies.
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