Optoelectronic monitoring of individual whisker movements in rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 89-96

  Bermejo, R ^a   Houben, D ^a   Zeigler, H Philip ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Motor control; Movement; Optoelectronic; Somatosensory; Vibrissa; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; ILLUMINATION; MONITORING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSOR; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIME PERCEPTION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0032167760     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(98)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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