Motor-sensory convergence in object localization: A comparative study in rats and humans

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1581, 2011, Pages 3070-3076

  Horev, Guy ^a,b   Saig, Avraham ^a   Knutsen, Per Magne ^a,c   Pietr, Maciej ^a   Yu, Chunxiu ^a,d   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive process; Behaviour dynamics; Closed feedback loops; Decision making; Sensory substitution; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HAIR; HOMINID; PERCEPTION; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; VIDEOGRAPHY;

RATTUS;

EID: 80053473196     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0157     Document Type: Article

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