The stomatogastric nervous system as a model for studying sensorimotor interactions in real-time closed-loop conditions

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Daur, Nelly ^a,b   Diehl, Florian ^a   Mader, Wolfgang ^a   Stein, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generation; Emergent properties; Proprioception; Sensorimotor; Spike frequency adaptation

Indexed keywords

BEST MATCH; BIOLOGICAL MOTORS; BODY MOVEMENTS; CLOSED-LOOP; CURRENT INJECTIONS; EMERGENT PROPERTY; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; IN-VITRO; INTERNAL STATE; MODEL PROPERTIES; MODEL SYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE MODELS; PATTERN GENERATION; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME COMPUTER; SEMI-INTACT; SENSORIMOTOR; SPIKE FREQUENCY ADAPTATIONS; STOMATOGASTRIC;

ANIMALS; MUSCLE; NEURONS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STOMACH INNERVATION; TENDON; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ACTIVITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; STOMATOGASTRIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84857892024     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00013     Document Type: Article

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