Embodied Information Processing: Vibrissa Mechanics and Texture Features Shape Micromotions in Actively Sensing Rats

Neuron

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-613

  Ritt, Jason T ^a   Andermann, Mark L ^b   Moore, Christopher I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 39449119804     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.12.024     Document Type: Article

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