Central pattern generators (CPGs) are circuits that generate organized and repetitive motor
patterns, such as those underlying feeding, locomotion and respiration. We summarize …

Most of our knowledge about the human spinal ascending (sensory) and descending
(motor) pathways comes from non-invasive electrophysiological investigations. However …

We modeled a segmental oscillator of the timing network that paces the heartbeat of the
leech. This model represents a network of six heart interneurons that comprise the basic …

We have developed a biomimetic robot based on the American lobster. The robot is
designed to achieve the performance advantages of the animal model by adopting …

Half a century ago, two independent papers that described unexpected results of
experiments on locomotion in insects and crayfish appeared almost simultaneously …

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 …

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 …

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