Sensorimotor integration in the whisker system / Patrik Krieger, Alexander Groh, editors.

Other author Krieger, Patrik.
Other author Groh, Alexander.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Springer, [2015]
Descriptionix, 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Contents 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 A. Castro-Alamancos -- 4. Synaptic microcircuits in the barrel cortex / Gabriele Radnikow, Guanxiao Qi and Dirk Feldmeyer -- 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 / Shubhodeep Chakrabarti and Cornelius Schwarz -- 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 F. Lepora, Stuart P. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, John Porrill, Paul Dean, Charles W. Fox, Martin J. Pearson, J. Charles Sullivan and Anthony 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.
Abstract "Sensorimotor integration, the dynamic process by which the sensory and motor systems communicate with each other, is crucial to humans' and animals' ability to explore and react to their environment. This book summarizes the main aspects of our current understanding of sensorimotor integration in 10 chapters written by leading scientists in this active and ever-growing field. This volume focuses on the whisker system, which is an exquisite model to experimentally approach sensorimotor integration in the mammalian brain. In this book, authors examine the whisker system on many different levels, ranging from the building blocks and neuronal circuits to sensorimotor behavior. Neuronal coding strategies, comparative analysis as well as robotics illustrate the multiple facets of this research and its broad impact on fundamental questions about the neurobiology of the mammalian brain." -- Back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015947147
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