Central pattern generators are neuronal ensembles capable of producing the basic
spatiotemporal patterns underlying 'automatic'movements (eg locomotion, respiration …

What does the swimming leech have to do with the running human? The ability to move
actively in space is essential to members of the animal kingdom, and the evolution of the …

Crustacean motor pattern-generating networks have played central roles in understanding
the cellular and network bases of rhythmic motor patterns for over half a century. We review …

Larval zebrafish provide a unique model for investigating the mechanisms involved in
generating rhythmic patterns of behavior, such as swimming, due to the array of techniques …

The crustacean swimmeret system includes a distributed set of local circuits that individually
control movements of one jointed limb. These modular local circuits occur in pairs in each …

Synchronization of distributed neural circuits is required for many behavioral tasks, but the
mechanisms that coordinate these circuits are largely unknown. The modular local circuits …

The study of the neural basis of motor patterns that underlie wavelike behaviors such as
undulatory swimming has contributed to our general understanding of coordination in the …

Normal locomotion in arthropods and vertebrates is a complex behavior, and the neural
mechanisms that coordinate their limbs during locomotion at different speeds are unknown …

How does the CNS coordinate muscle contractions between different body segments during
normal locomotion? Work on several preparations has shown that this coordination relies on …

Neuronal mechanisms in nervous systems that keep intersegmental phase lags the same at
different frequencies are not well understood. We investigated biophysical mechanisms that …