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🧑🏻‍💻 Sr. Data Scientist @BeyondLimitsAI 🧠 Ph.D. Neuroscience @USC ‘20
Aug 29, 2019 13 tweets 6 min read
Tweetorial time!

1. Question: How do mice locate objects with their whiskers? There are many models, but nobody knows for sure.

We investigated six models of whisker-guided object localization to determine the simplest model that fit behavior best.

cell.com/current-biolog… 2. We tried to keep things simple. We trained head-fixed mice to locate an object on one axis along the face using a single whisker. This approach limits the free parameters we need to tease apart to find the answer.