Discriminative whisking in the head-fixed rat: Optoelectronic monitoring during tactile detection and discrimination tasks

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-222

  Harvey, Michael A ^a   Bermejo, Roberto ^a   Zeigler, H Philip ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Discrimination; Head fixation; Kinematics; Whisking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAD MOVEMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0034841064     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590120072204     Document Type: Article

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