The mechanical variables underlying object localization along the axis of the whisker

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6726-6741

  Pammer, Lorenz ^a,b,c   O'Connor, Daniel H ^a   Hires, S Andrew ^a   Clack, Nathan G ^a   Huber, Daniel ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; KETOPROFEN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRICTION; IMAGING; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84876206181     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4316-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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