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Description:: All animals purposefully navigate feature-rich environments: while exploring, in search of vital resources of food and water, finding mates, and patrolling and marking habitats. During these complex behaviors, continuous analogue input information from peripheral sensory organs guides discrete and digital sequential motor output; accordingly, each action is informed, modulated, or...
Keyword:: Rodent, Behavior, Trigeminal, Prrxl1, Somatotopy, and Ingestive
Subject:: Neurosciences
Creator:: Resulaj, Admir
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_879817 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15946

Description:: Many species of rodents rely on the set of exquisitely sensitive facial vibrissae (whiskers) to guide rich behaviors in which other senses are inadequate. Although whiskers are, like all hairs, inert strands of keratin, they provide the animal with a rich landscape of tactile information which is used to guide...
Keyword:: Mechanics, Afferent, Vibrissal, Trigeminal, and Whisker
Subject:: Neurosciences
Creator:: Bush, Nicholas E
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14697 and etdadmin_upload_666783

Description:: Mechanisms for sensing fluid flow are well studied in arthropods and in some aquatic mammals, but we know very little about how terrestrial mammals detect and localize airflow (Chapter 1). In this thesis, I will describe a series of studies in rodents that investigate the behavioral, mechanical, and neural basis...
Keyword:: Flow sensing, Anemotaxis, Wind, Trigeminal, Odor tracking, and Whisker
Subject:: Mechanical Engineering
Creator:: Yan S.W. Yu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2019
Date Modified:: 01/30/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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