Anatomical pathways involved in generating and sensing rhythmic whisker movements

LWJ Bosman, AR Houweling, CB Owens… - Frontiers in integrative …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
The rodent whisker system is widely used as a model system for investigating sensorimotor
integration, neural mechanisms of complex cognitive tasks, neural development, and …

Neuronal basis for object location in the vibrissa scanning sensorimotor system

D Kleinfeld, M Deschênes - Neuron, 2011 - cell.com
An essential issue in perception is how the location of an object is estimated from tactile
signals in the context of self-generated changes in sensor configuration. Here, we review the …

Active touch and self-motion encoding by merkel cell-associated afferents

KS Severson, D Xu, M Van de Loo, L Bai, DD Ginty… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Touch perception depends on integrating signals from multiple types of peripheral
mechanoreceptors. Merkel-cell associated afferents are thought to play a major role in form …

The head-fixed behaving rat—procedures and pitfalls

C Schwarz, H Hentschke, S Butovas… - … & motor research, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes experimental techniques with head-fixed, operantly conditioned
rodents that allow the control of stimulus presentation and tracking of motor output at hitherto …

Sniffing and whisking in rodents

M Deschênes, J Moore, D Kleinfeld - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Sniffing and whisking are two rhythmic orofacial motor activities that enable rodents to
localize and track objects in their environment. They have related temporal dynamics …

Vibrissa self-motion and touch are reliably encoded along the same somatosensory pathway from brainstem through thalamus

JD Moore, N Mercer Lindsay, M Deschênes… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Active sensing involves the fusion of internally generated motor events with external
sensation. For rodents, active somatosensation includes scanning the immediate …

[HTML][HTML] Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models

DH O'Connor, L Krubitzer, S Bensmaia - Progress in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the neural basis of somatosensation is based largely on studies of the
whisker system of mice and rats and the hands of macaque monkeys. Results across these …

Prediction of primary somatosensory neuron activity during active tactile exploration

D Campagner, MH Evans, MR Bale, A Erskine… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Primary sensory neurons form the interface between world and brain. Their function is well-
understood during passive stimulation but, under natural behaving conditions, sense organs …

Multiple modes of phase locking between sniffing and whisking during active exploration

S Ranade, B Hangya, A Kepecs - Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Sense organs are often actively controlled by motor processes and such active sensing
profoundly shapes the timing of sensory information flow. The temporal coordination …

Whiskers aid anemotaxis in rats

YSW Yu, MM Graff, CS Bresee, YB Man… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Observation of terrestrial mammals suggests that they can follow the wind (anemotaxis), but
the sensory cues underlying this ability have not been studied. We identify a significant …