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It's not you, it's me. Really.

A subset of neurons in rat barrel cortex integrate information about the object a whisker contacts with the motion of the whisker at the time of contact, setting the stage for a highly specialized object localization system.

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Figure 1: Object localization in a head-centered coordinate system.

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Stanley, G. It's not you, it's me. Really.. Nat Neurosci 12, 374–375 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0409-374

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