Unsupervised quantification of whisking and head movement in freely moving rodents

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1950-1962

  Perkon, Igor ^a,b,c   Košir, Andrej ^c   Itskov, Pavel M ^a,b   Tasič, Jurij ^c   Diamond, Mathew E ^a,b  

^a International School for Advanced Studies ^*  (United States)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEAD MOVEMENT; ILLUMINATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VIBRISSA; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VIBRISSAE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79955131409     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00764.2010     Document Type: Article

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