Whisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
Open Access
- 26 August 2008
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (8), e220
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060220
Abstract
Rats use their whiskers to rapidly and accurately measure the texture of objects. The authors evaluate recent evidence about how whisker movement across a surface produces texture-specific motion signals, and how the signals are represented by the brain.Keywords
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