The vibrissa sensory system is a key model for investigating principles of sensory
processing. Specific frequency ranges of vibrissa motion, generated by rodent sensory …

Rats use active, rhythmic movements of their whiskers to acquire tactile information about
three-dimensional object features. There are no receptors along the length of the whisker; …

Rodents excel in making texture judgments by sweeping their whiskers across a surface.
Here we aimed to identify the signals present in whisker vibrations that give rise to such fine …

Layer IV circuitry in the rodent whisker-to-barrel pathway transforms the thalamic input signal
spatially and temporally. Excitatory and inhibitory barrel neurons display response …

The ability of rats using their whiskers to perform fine tactile discrimination rivals that of
humans using their fingertips. Rats must perform these discriminations rapidly and …

Rodents in their natural environment use their whiskers to distinguish between surfaces
having subtly different textures and shapes. They do so by actively sweeping their whiskers …

Rats rhythmically sweep their whiskers over object features, generating sequential
deflections of whisker arcs. Such moving wavefronts of whisker deflection are likely to be …

Cells in the rodent barrel cortex respond to vibrissa deflection with a brief excitatory
component and a longer suppressive component. The response to a given deflection is thus …

During environmental exploration, rats rhythmically whisk their vibrissae along the
rostrocaudal axis. Each forward extension of the vibrissa array establishes rapid …

Adaptation is a ubiquitous property of all sensory pathways of the brain and thus likely
critical in the encoding of behaviorally relevant sensory information. Despite evidence …