Figure 3.

An example of the tracked points measured during orienting. Example video stills from pre-contact whisk to a microvibrissal contact in whisk 3. Whisk 1: the rat has just contacted the block. Second whisk: the rat orients toward the block. Third whisk and microvibrissal contact: the nose is now touching the block. The red lines correspond to the area of whiskers contacting the wall and perspex block. The rat moves away from the wall and toward the novel perspex block. The snout position and the positions of the whiskers on the block (right, left, near, and far), and the wall (rostral and caudal) will be to construct our measures, which we describe below.