Longitudinal neuronal organization and coordination in a simple vertebrate: A continuous, semi-quantitative computer model of the central pattern generator for swimming in young frog tadpoles

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 291-308

  Wolf, Ervin ^a,b   Soffe, S R ^b   Roberts, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Locomotion; Motor coordination; Population model; Xenopus tadpole

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COMPUTER MODELS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CO-ORDINATION; NEURONAL ORGANIZATION; POPULATION MODEL; SIMPLE++; TRUNK MUSCLE; XENOPUS; XENOPUS TADPOLE;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN GENERATOR; POPULATION MODEL; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING; TADPOLE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 69549128075     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-009-0143-9     Document Type: Article

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