Tactile nerve fibers fall into a few classes that can be readily distinguished based on their
spatiotemporal response properties. Because nerve fibers reflect local skin deformations …

Non-luminance-mediated changes in pupil size have been widely used to index arousal
state. Recent animal studies have demonstrated correlations between behavioral state …

Somatosensation is the physical experience of the world through our bodies—a literal sense
of self. The loss of sight, hearing, and smell can be overcome, but the loss of …

Background The rodent vibrissal (whisker) sensorimotor integration and active tactile
sensing. Experiments on the vibrissal system often require highly repeatable stimulation of …

The current view in neuroscience holds that the brain, together with its sensory and motor
structures and the environment, form a closed-loop system—a sensorimotor loop—in which …

Sensorimotor integration is a general term to describe how task-specific motor output is
generated from the selective and rapid processing of sensory and motor information. The …

Each primary sensory cortex gets input from corresponding primary and secondary thalamic
nuclei. While primary thalamic nuclei are characterized by their sensory responses, the …

The overarching purpose of this work is to expand the utility of pupillometry as a non-
invasive index of pupil-linked neuromodulatory systems, which are correlated with behavior …