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

The developing barrel cortex reveals a rich repertoire of neuronal activity patterns, which
have been also found in other sensory neocortical areas and in other species including the …

Rats sweep their facial whiskers back and forth to generate tactile sensory information
through contact with environmental structure. The neural processes operating on the signals …

Both seasoned and beginning investigators will be amazed at the range and complexity of
rat behavior as described in the 43 chapters of this volume. The behavioral descriptions are …

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 …

Animals actively regulate the position and movement of their sensory systems to boost the
quality and quantity of the sensory information they obtain. The rat vibrissal system is …

Rats use rhythmic movements of their vibrissae (whiskers) to tactually explore their
environment. This “whisking” behavior has generally been reported to be strictly …

The biomechanics of a motor plant constrain the behavioral strategies that an animal has
available to extract information from its environment. We used the rat vibrissa system as a …

Due to recent advances that enable real-time electrophysiological recordings in brains of
awake behaving rodents, effective methods for analyzing the large amount of behavioral …