Decoding touch: Rats detect textures with their whiskers
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 08:53
in Biology & Nature
With their whiskers rats can detect the texture of objects in the same way as humans do using their fingertips. A new study shows that it is possible to understand what specific object has been touched by a rat by observing the activation of brain neurons. A further step towards understanding how the brain, also in humans, represents the outside world.