A small-systems approach to motor pattern generation
- 16 May 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 417 (6886), 343-350
- https://doi.org/10.1038/417343a
Abstract
How neuronal networks enable animals, humans included, to make coordinated movements is a continuing goal of neuroscience research. The stomatogastric nervous system of decapod crustaceans, which contains a set of distinct but interacting motor circuits, has contributed significantly to the general principles guiding our present understanding of how rhythmic motor circuits operate at the cellular level. This results from a detailed documentation of the circuit dynamics underlying motor pattern generation in this system as well as its modulation by individual transmitters and neurons.Keywords
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