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The role of orienting in vibrissal touch sensing

Rodents, such as rats and mice, are strongly tactile animals who explore the environment with their long mobile facial whiskers, or macrovibrissae, and orient to explore objects further with their shorter, more densely packed, microvibrissae. Although whisker motion (whisking) has been extensively s...

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Autores principales: Grant, Robyn A., Sperber, Anna L., Prescott, Tony J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3391677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22787445
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00039

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