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Ehud Ahisher

As the word spread and panic gripped the public, the city officials ordered the killing of London's cats and dogs on the assumption that the fleas they carry were spreading the deadly bacteria. The assumption was not wrong - fleas do indeed carry the disease-causing bacteria - but the trustees of public health forgot an important factor in the equation: the rats. Photo: H. Zell, Wikimedia.

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Neural structures at the base of the rat's whisker hairs process and transmit to the brain information about the movement of the hairs

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From the right: Prof. Ehud Ahisher, Dr. Kanarik Bagdasarian and Dodi Deutsch. Perception

Between touch and sight

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