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Studying the Neural Basis of Adaptive Locomotor Behavior in Insects
Published on: April 13, 2011
Imaging the neural basis of locomotion
Kristin Branson1, Jeremy Freeman1
1Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA 20147, USA.
Abstract:
To investigate the fundamental question of how nervous systems encode, organize, and sequence behaviors, Kato et al. imaged neural activity with cellular resolution across the brain of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Locomotion behavior seems to be continuously represented by cyclical patterns of distributed neural activity that are present even in immobilized animals.
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