About the Author

About the editors Avis H. Cohen, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate in the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University. Her research includes studies of the lamprey central pattern generator for locomotion, spinal regeneration, and models of coupled non-linear oscillators. Serge Rossignol, MD, PhD, is Professor of Physiology and a member of the MRC group in Neurological Sciences at the UniversitE de MontrEal. He studies sensory-motor integration during locomotion in higher vertebrates. Sten Grillner, MD, PhD, is Professor of Physiology and head of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. His work on cats and lamprey is devoted to the study of the cellular basis of vertebrate locomotion.