Open AccessWhisker-Mediated Texture Discrimination
Author(s) -
Mathew E. Diamond,
Moritz von Heimendahl,
Ehsan Arabzadeh
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060220
Subject(s) - whisker , biology , texture (cosmology) , whiskers , measure (data warehouse) , anatomy , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer vision , computer science , materials science , composite material , image (mathematics) , database , ecology
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.
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