Vocalization–whisking coordination and multisensory integration of social signals in rat auditory cortex
Social interactions involve multi-modal signaling. Here, we study interacting rats to investigate audio-haptic coordination and multisensory integration in the auditory cortex. We find that facial touch is associated with an increased rate of ultrasonic vocalizations, which are emitted at the whiski...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2014-12-01
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Series: | eLife |
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Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/03185 |