Traveling-wave pattern generator controls movement and organization of sensory feedback in a spinal cord model

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-19

  Kaske, Alexander ^a   Winberg, Gösta ^a   Cöster, Joakim ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUSCLE; NEURAL NETWORKS; SENSORY FEEDBACK; TISSUE;

GAMMA MOTOR NEURONS; LIMB; SINGLE LAYER PERCEPTRON; SPINAL CORD; TRAVELING WAVE PATTERN GENERATOR;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD;

FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0042266908     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-002-0334-1     Document Type: Article

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