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Discriminative whisking in the head-fixed rat: optoelectronic monitoring during tactile detection and discrimination tasks

Michael A. Harvey, Roberto Bermejo, H. Philip Zeigler Biopsychology Program, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10021, USA
Pages 211-222 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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