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Coding of whisker motion across the mouse face.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Club-like receptors respond to light touch but not to whisking.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Orofacial Movements: Individuality and Stereotypy When Mice Move a Single Whisker to Touch.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Comparative morphology of the whiskers and faces of mice (Mus musculus) and rats (Rattus norvegicus).The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Construction of Wearable Touch Sensors by Mimicking the Properties of Materials and Structures in Nature.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Interchangeable Role of Motor Cortex and Reafference for the Stable Execution of an Orofacial Action.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Supra-orbital whiskers act as wind-sensing antennae in rats.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Reducing Merkel cell activity in the whisker follicle disrupts cortical encoding of whisker movement amplitude and velocity.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2022Article
- The neurobiology of pain and facial movements in rodents: Clinical applications and current research.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Review
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- Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models.Progress in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Circuit organization of the excitatory sensorimotor loop through hand/forelimb S1 and M1.eLife · 2021Article
- Information about contact force and surface texture is mixed in the firing rates of cutaneous afferent neurons.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Shaping the Cortical Landscape: Functions and Mechanisms of Top-Down Cortical Feedback Pathways.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Haptic perception synthesizes touch with proprioception, the sense of body position. Humans and mice alike experience rich active touch of the face. Because most facial muscles lack proprioceptor endings, the sensory basis of facial proprioception remains unsolved. Facial proprioception may instead rely on mechanoreceptors that encode both touch and self-motion. In rodents, whisker mechanoreceptors provide a signal that informs the brain about whisker position. Whisking involves coordinated orofacial movements, so mechanoreceptors innervating facial regions other than whiskers could also provide information about whisking. To define all sources of sensory information about whisking available to the brain, we recorded spikes from mechanoreceptors innervating diverse parts of the face. Whisker motion was encoded best by whisker mechanoreceptors, but also by those innervating whisker pad hairy skin and supraorbital vibrissae. Redundant self-motion responses may provide the brain with a stable proprioceptive signal despite mechanical perturbations during active touch.
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