Vibrissa-based object localization in head-fixed mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1947-1967

  O'Connor, Daniel H ^a   Clack, Nathan G ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Komiyama, Takaki ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LICKING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOVEMENT; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 76249126884     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3762-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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