Article Information
- Received December 20, 2005
- Revision received June 8, 2006
- Accepted July 13, 2006
- First published August 23, 2006.
- Version of record published August 23, 2006.
Author Information
- Departments of 1Biomedical Engineering and
- 2Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3107
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Mitra J. Hartmann, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3107. m-hartmann{at}northwestern.edu
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Disclosures
- Received December 20, 2005.
- Revision received June 8, 2006.
- Accepted July 13, 2006.
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This work was supported by an award from the Bio-Inspired Technologies and Systems/Center for Integrated Space Microsystems at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, by National Science Foundation Grant 0446391 from the Division of Integrative and Organismal Biology, and by an award to the team of Northwestern undergraduate students from the Office of Industry Relations of the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science on behalf of The Ford Motor Company. We thank undergraduates Ben Paul and Allison Ullom for help with the behavioral training and for helping to track vibrissal locations along with undergraduates Monica Boen, Jason Crystal, and Neel Naik and graduate students Brian Quist, Aniket Kaloti, and Alex Birdwell. We thank Dr. Christopher Assad for useful discussions.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Mitra J. Hartmann, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3107. m-hartmann{at}northwestern.edu
