The tactile somatosensory pathway from whisker to cortex in rodents provides a well-defined
system for exploring the link between molecular mechanisms, synaptic circuits, and …

Neocortex, the neuronal structure at the base of the remarkable cognitive skills of mammals,
is a layered sheet of neuronal tissue composed of juxtaposed and interconnected columns …

Rats sweep their vibrissae through space to locate objects in their immediate environment.
In essence, their view of the proximal world is generated through pliable hairs that tap and …

The array of whiskers on the snout provides rodents with tactile sensory information relating
to the size, shape and texture of objects in their immediate environment. Rodents can use …

The rodent whisker system is widely used as a model system for investigating sensorimotor
integration, neural mechanisms of complex cognitive tasks, neural development, and …

A major challenge of sensory systems neuroscience is to quantify brain activity underlying
perceptual experiences and to explain this activity as the outcome of elemental neuronal …

Rats discriminate surface textures using their whiskers (vibrissae), but how whiskers extract
texture information, and how this information is encoded by the brain, are not known. In the …

Seals are known to use their highly sensitive whiskers to precisely follow the hydrodynamic
trail left behind by prey. Studies estimate that a seal can track a herring that is swimming as …

It has been hypothesized that rats and other mammals can use stereo cues to localize odor
sources, but there is limited behavioral evidence to support this hypothesis. We found that …

We investigated the natural resonance properties and damping characteristics of rat
macrovibrissae (whiskers). Isolated whiskers rigidly fixed at the base showed first-mode …