Active spatial perception in the vibrissa scanning sensorimotor system

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0309-0322

  Mehta, Samar B ^a   Whitmer, Diane ^a,b   Figueroa, Rodolfo ^a   Williams, Ben A ^c   Kleinfeld, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33846959465     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050015     Document Type: Article

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