Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493929763 ISBN 13: 9781493929764

Publisher: Springer, 2015

Synopsis

1. Introduction

Alexander Groh and Patrik Krieger

Part I: Whisker System in Mammals

2. Comparative Studies of Somatosensory Systems and Active Sensing

Kenneth C. Catania and Elizabeth H. Catania

Part II: Building Blocks of the Whisker System

3. The Whisker Thalamus

Manuel Castro-Alamancos

4. Synaptic Microcircuits in the Barrel Cortex

Dirk Feldmeyer, Gabriele Radnikow, and Quanxiao Qi

5. Imaging the Cortical Representation of Active Sensing in the Vibrissa System

Fritjof Helmchen and Jerry L. Chen

6. The Rodent Vibrissal System as a Model to Study Motor Cortex Function

Cornelius Schwarz and Shubhodeep Chakrabarti

7. The Central Pattern Generator for Rhythmic Whisking

David Kleinfeld, Martin Deschênes, and Jeffrey D. Moore

Part III: Computations of the Whisker System

8. Functional principles of Whisker-mediated Touch Perception

Miguel Maravall and Mathew E. Diamond

9. Location Coding by the Whisking System

Tess Baker Oram, Eldad Assa, Per Magne Knutsen, and Ehud Ahissar

10. The Robot Vibrissal System: Understanding Mammalian Sensorimotor Co-ordination through Biomimetics

Tony J. Prescott, Ben Mitchinson, Nathan Lepora, Stuard P. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, John Porill, Paul Dean, Charles Fox, Martin J. Pearson, J. Charles Sullivan, and A. G. Pipe

Part IV: Development of the Whisker System

11. Impact of Monoaminergic Neuromodulators on the Development of Sensorimotor Circuits

Dirk Schubert, Nael

Nadif Kasri, Tansu Celikel, and Judith Homberg

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1493929763
• ISBN 13: 9781493929764
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English