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"Whiskers: A Feel for the Dark", from California Wild, magazine of the CA Academy of Sciences
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"Nocturnal animals such as this chinchilla rely on their long
whiskers to explore a dark, dangerous world." (from above-linked article) Photograph by Dong Lin. |
Investigators
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Kevin Fox and associates - experience-dependent plasticity in barrel cortex...
Mitra Hartmann's lab - neurally inspired sensing and control
Asaf Keller - information processing by local neuronal networks
Ilan Lampl - processing of sensory information in the cerebral cortex
Jim McCasland - development and plasticity of whisker/barrel cortex in rodents
Chris Moore - Cortical Mechanisms of Tactile Perception. The Moore lab is interested in understanding tactile perception, and specifically how rapid changes in neural organization relate to rapid changes in perceptual function. The vibrissa sensory system is a key focus of research in the laboratory, with an emphasis on frequency-dependent information processing.
Dan Simons' Lab - brain circuitry and neuronal information processing in the somatosensory system
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The Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, Psychology Dept., Univ. of Sheffield, England. A multidisciplinary group whose aim is to understand animal behavior by studying models of neural circuitry and the robotic behavior that results from the use of such models.
Artificial
Mouse Project: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland
Our lab is developing a multisensory robot equipped with visual sensors and an artificial whisker system in order to perform robot experiments on navigation and learning based on multisensory cues. It will serve as a means for validating models of multi-modal and sensorimotor information processing gained from neurophysiological experiments and neural modelling. The project will investigate the interdependence of sensory morphology (mechanical whisker properties, arrangement within whisker array) and the processing of the sensory signals. Active sensing (body motion and whisking behaviour) will be studied to derive insights in the sensorimotor control system and underlying perception.
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The Neuroprosthesis Research Organization is a
privately funded non-profit organization dedicated to providing science news information
and advice to individuals with chronic electrode implants in their brain, spinal cord,
peripheral nervous system and/or muscles. We raise funds for visual, auditory and
sensorimotor neuroprosthesis, sensorimotor substitution, human brain-computer interaction
and healthcare oriented biomorphic robotics related research. Many of our visitors are
scientists, students, writers, journalists, artists, who are interested in neural
prosthesis research. Our goal in the long term is to strive towards developing biomorphic
external control of robotic devices and/or functional electrical stimulation while
requiring the minimum possible in terms of invasive implants to obtain neural intention
signals for artificial motor control.
Society for Neuroscience