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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00039/full |