Active touch during shrew prey capture

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2010, Pages

  Munz, Martin ^a,b   Brecht, Michael ^a   Wolfe, Jason ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active touch; Barrel cortex; Etruscan shrew; Prey capture; Whisker

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955144419     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00191     Document Type: Article

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