Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System
| Verlag | Springer |
| Auflage | 2015 |
| Seiten | 276 |
| Format | 16,3 x 24,3 x 2,1 cm |
| Gewicht | 543 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781493929740 |
| Bestell-Nr | 49392974UA |
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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 II I: 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