Tactile guidance of prey capture in Etruscan shrews

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 44, 2006, Pages 16544-16549

  Anjum, Farzana ^a   Turni, Hendrik ^b   Mulder, Paul G H ^a   Van Der Burg, Johannes ^a   Brecht, Michael ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active touch; Barrel cortex; Object recognition; Suncus etruscus; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; INSECTIVORE; METABOLIC RATE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VIBRISSA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRYLLIDAE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SHREWS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

GRYLLIDAE; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE; SUNCUS ETRUSCUS;

EID: 33750805704     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605573103     Document Type: Article

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