Sensorimotor integration the dynamic process by which the sensory and motor systems
communicate with each other is crucial to humans' and animals' ability to explore and react to
their environment. This book summarizes the main aspects of our current understanding of
sensorimotor integration in 10 chapters written by leading scientists in this active and
ever-growing field. This volume focuses on the whisker system which is an exquisite model to
experimentally approach sensorimotor integration in the mammalian brain. In this book authors
examine the whisker system on many different levels ranging from the building blocks and
neuronal circuits to sensorimotor behavior. Neuronal coding strategies comparative analysis as
well as robotics illustrate the multiple facets of this research and its broad impact on
fundamental questions about the neurobiology of the mammalian brain.
