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Apr. 08, 2011
Video Pick: Seeing The World Through Whiskers
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| Rats don't have sharp vision, and rely on their whiskers to help them navigate. Reporting in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, Mitra Hartmann, an engineer at Northwestern University, and colleagues imaged 354 rat whiskers to create a 3-D model of a rat face to better understand how rats turn the bend of their whiskers into a perception. |
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