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 …

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 …

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 …

Using their large mystacial vibrissas, rats perform a variety of tasks, including localization
and identification of objects. We report on the discriminatory thresholds and behavior of rats …

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 …

Haptic perception is an active process that provides an awareness of objects that are
encountered as an organism scans its environment. In contrast to the sensation of touch …

Rodents begin to use bilaterally coordinated, rhythmic sweeping of their vibrissae ("
whisking") for environmental exploration around 2 weeks after birth. Whether (and how) the …

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 …