Modeling forces and moments at the base of a rat vibrissa during noncontact whisking and whisking against an object

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 9828-9844

  Quist, Brian W ^a   Seghete, Vlad ^a   Huet, Lucie A ^a   Murphey, Todd D ^a   Hartmann, Mitra J Z ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC COLLISION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VELOCITY; VIBRISSA; VIBRISSA MOVEMENT; WHISKING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84904578925     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1707-12.2014     Document Type: Article

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