Neural control exploits changing mechanical advantage and context dependence to generate different feeding responses in Aplysia

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 333-345

  Sutton, Gregory P ^a   Mangan, Elizabeth V ^a   Neustadter, David M ^b,c   Beer, Randall D ^d   Crago, Patrick E ^b   Chiel, Hillel J ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD   (Israel)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

BUCCAL MASS; FEEDING RESPONSES; NEURAL CONTROL; VERTEBRATE CONTROL;

NEUROLOGY;

APLYSIA; ODONTOPHORA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLION; INSTRUMENTATION; JAW; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; JAW; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES;

EID: 10644229386     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-004-0517-z     Document Type: Article

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