Sensory feedback plays a significant role in generating walking gait and in gait transition in salamanders: A simulation study

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Harischandra, Nalin ^a,b   Knuesel, Jeremie ^c   Kozlov, Alexander ^a,d   Bicanski, Andrej ^c   Cabelguen, Jean Marie ^e   Ijspeert, Auke ^c   Ekeberg, Örjan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Gait transition; Locomotion; Neuronal network; Sensory feedback; Spiking neurons; Walking gait

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861945597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2011.00003     Document Type: Article

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