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
Materias:
Primer
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
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-25256932008-08-28 Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination Diamond, Mathew E von Heimendahl, Moritz Arabzadeh, Ehsan PLoS Biol Primer 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. Public Library of Science 2008-08 2008-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2525693/ /pubmed/18752356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060220 Text en © 2008 Diamond et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title_full Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title_fullStr Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title_full_unstemmed Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title_short Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
title_sort whisker-mediated texture discrimination
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url 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
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