What is it like to be a rat? sensory augmentation study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6191 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 298-305

  Saig, Avraham ^a   Arieli, Amos ^a   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

localization; object recognition; perception; Sensory augmentation; vibrissa; whiskers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACES; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; FORCE SENSOR; HUMAN ABILITIES; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; POSITION SENSORS; SENSORY MODALITY; SHAPE RECOGNITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955159015     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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