Whisking kinematics enables object localization in head-centered coordinates based on tactile information from a single vibrissa

During active tactile exploration with their whiskers (vibrissae), rodents can rapidly orient to an object even though there are very few proprioceptors in the whisker muscles. Thus a long-standing question in the study of the vibrissal system is how the rat can localize an object in head-centered c...

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Main Authors: Anne En-Tzu Yang, Mitra J Z Hartmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00145/full