Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System

<p>1.         Introduction</p><p>            Alexander Groh and Patrik Krieger</p><p>Part I: Whisker System in Mammals</p><p>2.         Comparative Studies of Somatosensory Systems and Active Sensing</p><p>            Kenneth C. Catania and Elizabeth H. Catania</p><p>Part II: Building Blocks of the Whisker System</p><p>3.         The Whisker Thalamus</p><p>            Manuel Castro-Alamancos</p><p>4.         Synaptic Microcircuits in the Barrel Cortex</p><p>            Dirk Feldmeyer, Gabriele Radnikow, and Quanxiao Qi</p><p>5.         Imaging the Cortical Representation of Active Sensing in the Vibrissa System</p><p>            Fritjof Helmchen and Jerry L. Chen</p><p>6.         The Rodent Vibrissal System as a Model to Study Motor Cortex Function</p><p>            Cornelius Schwarz and Shubhodeep Chakrabarti</p><p>7.         The Central Pattern Generator for Rhythmic Whisking</p><p>            David Kleinfeld, Martin Deschênes, and Jeffrey D. Moore</p><p>Part III: Computations of the Whisker System</p><p>8.         Functional principles of Whisker-mediated Touch Perception</p><p>            Miguel Maravall and Mathew E. Diamond</p><p>9.         Location Coding by the Whisking System</p><p>            Tess Baker Oram, Eldad Assa, Per Magne Knutsen, and Ehud Ahissar</p><p>10.       The Robot Vibrissal System: Understanding Mammalian Sensorimotor Co-ordination through Biomimetics</p><p>            Tony J. Prescott, Ben Mitchinson, Nathan Lepora, Stuard P. Wilson, Sean R. Anderson, John Porill, Paul Dean, Charles Fox, Martin J. Pearson, J. Charles Sullivan, and A. G. Pipe</p><p>Part IV: Development of the Whisker System</p><p>11.       Impact of Monoaminergic Neuromodulators on the Development of Sensorimotor Circuits</p><p>            Dirk Schubert, Nael</p> Nadif Kasri, Tansu Celikel, and Judith Homberg</p>