Three-dimensional contact point determination and contour reconstruction during active whisking behavior of the awake rat
Huet, L. A.; Emnett, H. M.; Hartmann, M. J. Z.
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The rodent vibrissal (whisker) system has been studied for decades as a model of active touch sensing. There are no sensors along the length of a whisker; all sensing occurs at the whisker base. Therefore, a large open question in many neuroscience studies is how an animal could estimate the three-dimensional location at which a whisker makes contact with an object. In the present work we simulated the exact shape of a real rat whisker to demonstrate the existence of a unique mapping from triplets of mechanical signals at the whisker base to the three-dimensional whisker-object contact point. We then used high speed video to record whisker deflections as an awake rat whisked against a peg and used the mechanics resulting from those deflections to extract the contact points along the peg surface. A video shows the contour of the peg gradually emerging during active whisking behavior.
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