Per M Knutsen

Department of Physics, UCSD

Unpublished articles

• Whisking kinematics
• Per M Knutsen

Author

• Vibrissal location coding
• (2011) Ehud Ahissar, Per M Knutsen

Articles sponsored or reviewed

• Vibrissal behavior and function
• (2011) Tony J. Prescott, Ben Mitchinson, Robyn Anne Grant

Education

• BA Psychology, Physiology & Philosophy, University of Ocford, 2000.
• MSc Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2002.
• PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2006.

Selected Bibliography

• Knutsen, P.M., Biess, A., Ahissar, E. (2008) Vibrissal kinematics in 3D: Tight coupling of azimuth, elevation and torsion during different whisking modes. Neuron, 59(1): 35-42.

• Diamond, M., Heimendal, M.V., Knutsen, P.M., Ahissar, E., Kleinfeld, D. 'Where' and 'What' in the Vibrissal System (2008). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 9(8): 601-12.

• Ahissar, E., Knutsen, P.M. (2008) Object localization with Whiskers. Biological Cybernetics, 98(6): 449-58.

• Knutsen, P.M., Pietr, M., Ahissar, E. (2006) Haptic Object Localization in the Vibrissal System: Behavior and Performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(33): 8451-8464.

• Knutsen, P.M., Derdikman, D., Ahissar, E. (2005) Tracking whisker movements in freely moving rodents using high-speed video. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93(4): 2294-2301.