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Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination

Rats use their whiskers to rapidly and accurately measure the texture of objects. The authors evaluate recent evidence about how whisker movement across a surface produces texture-specific motion signals, and how the signals are represented by the brain.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Diamond, Mathew E, von Heimendahl, Moritz, Arabzadeh, Ehsan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18752356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060220