Tracking whisker and head movements in unrestrained behaving rodents

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2294-2301

  Knutsen, Per Magne ^a   Derdikman, Dori ^a   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAD MOVEMENT; KINEMATICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; RATS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 15544366150     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00718.2004     Document Type: Article

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