Active sensing: How the rat moves its whiskers

Jean Michel Mongeau; Chris C. Rodgers

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.021

Active sensing: How the rat moves its whiskers

Jean Michel Mongeau
, Chris C. Rodgers

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Abstract

Humans and animals learn about the world through targeted and deliberate movement of the head, eyes, hands, and other sensors. A new study demonstrates how the geometry of the rat whisker system simplifies the motor control of active sensing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R102-R104
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.021
State	Published - Feb 2 2026

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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