Selection and initiation of motor patterns; generation and formation of motor patterns - cellular and systems properties; generation and formation of motor patterns - computational approaches; modulation and reconfiguration; short-term modulation of pattern generating circuits; sensory modification of motor output to control whole body orientation.
"Unlike conference proceedings that consist solely of technical reports,this book would be more accurately described as a seminar on motor controloffered by luminaries in the field. Every chapter has obviously beenwritten with the nonspecialist in mind, usually providing background andexplanations of technical terms that make the subject more accessible tostudents and to those in other fields who wish to understand current issuesin motor control... All in all, this book should serve as a useful primerof contemporary research on motor systems for some years to come." Fred Delcomyn , The Quarterly Review of Biology "This is not just another 'meeting' book, but rather an artfully crafted,tightly edited state of the art description of the molecules, cells,systems and underlying network operations of the motor systems from leechesto insects to tetrapods to primates. If you've not followed the enormousprogress that this community has achieved, there's no better place tostart." Floyd E. Bloom, M.D. , Chairman, Department of Neuropharmacology, TheScripps Research Institute
Sten Grillner is Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Terrence J. Sejnowski holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was a member of the advisory committee for the Obama administration's BRAIN initiative and is President of the Neural Information Processing (NIPS) Foundation. He is the author of The Deep Learning Revolution (MIT Press) and other books. Tomaso A. Poggio is Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he is also Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines and Codirector of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning. He is coeditor of Perceptual Learning (MIT Press).
"Unlike conference proceedings that consist solely of technical reports,this book would be more accurately described as a seminar on motor controloffered by luminaries in the field. Every chapter has obviously beenwritten with the nonspecialist in mind, usually providing background andexplanations of technical terms that make the subject more accessible tostudents and to those in other fields who wish to understand current issuesin motor control... All in all, this book should serve as a useful primerof contemporary research on motor systems for some years to come." Fred Delcomyn , The Quarterly Review of Biology "This is not just another 'meeting' book, but rather an artfully crafted,tightly edited state of the art description of the molecules, cells,systems and underlying network operations of the motor systems from leechesto insects to tetrapods to primates. If you've not followed the enormousprogress that this community has achieved, there's no better place tostart." Floyd E. Bloom, M.D. , Chairman, Department of Neuropharmacology, TheScripps Research Institute
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