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Whisker encoding of mechanical events during active tactile exploration
Rats use their whiskers to extract a wealth of information about their immediate environment, such as the shape, position or texture of an object. The information is conveyed to mechanoreceptors located within the whisker follicle in the form of a sequence of whisker deflections induced by the whisk...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490139/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23133410 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00074 |