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Ehud Ahissar
01.11.2007
Sensory organs – fingers, eyes, whiskers – move continuously to sample the surroundings. How does the brain keep track of these movements,...
01.05.2006
The simple twitch of a rat's whisker encodes three different kinds of signal
30.01.2006
Three different types of code come into play when rats sense with their whiskers
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17.05.2005
A Weizmann Institute study finds that signals travel from a rat’s whiskers to its brain along three separate pathways
01.05.2004
Neurons in a rats' brain that respond just to whisker motion may help explain why our fingers move to feel and our eyes to take...
20.01.2004
Study shows that perception is tied to movement
Our fingers...
20.07.2000
How do the eyes 'speak' with the brain to convey visual information? And how does the brain reconstruct tactile sensations formed...
01.05.2000
A enigma concerning the role of a neurotransmitter in learning and memory is solved
13.02.2000
A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute and France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has...
14.10.1997
REHOVOT, Israel - October 14, 1997- Research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science may give a whole new meaning to the...
