The computational worm: Spatial orientation and its neuronal basis in C. elegans

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 782-790

  Lockery, Shawn R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CYTOLOGY; KLINOKINESIS; KLINOTAXIS; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WALKING; WORM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80053975123     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.06.009     Document Type: Review

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