Publications by authors named "Tess Baker Oram"
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- Research indicates that both VPM and POm equally code for whisker and head movements when mice are freely moving, even with eyebrows trimmed, suggesting that head kinematics are not solely dependent on whisker input.
- Optogenetic experiments show that activating thalamic neurons can change head movements, highlighting how these brain regions integrate sensory information to affect head positioning during tactile perception.
Animals actively move their sensory organs in order to acquire sensory information. Some rodents, such as mice and rats, employ cyclic scanning motions of their facial whiskers to explore their proximal surrounding, a behavior known as whisking. Here, we investigated the contingency of whisking kinematics on the animal's behavioral context that arises from both internal processes (attention and expectations) and external constraints (available sensory and motor degrees of freedom).
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