Modeling a vertebrate motor system: pattern generation, steering and control of body orientation

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue , 2007, Pages 221-234

  Grillner, Sten ^a   Kozlov, Alexander ^a,b   Dario, Paolo ^c   Stefanini, Cesare ^c   Menciassi, Arianna ^c   Lansner, Anders ^b   Hellgren Kotaleski, Jeanette ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

lamprey; locomotor network; modeling; robot; spinal cord; steering

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NETWORK LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIMULATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; LAMPREYS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORIENTATION;

EID: 34948880756     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)65014-0     Document Type: Review

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