Michael Dickinson
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Forgive me, but your publication list looks a bit chaotic. Your lab has worked on sensory physiology, muscle biomechanics, aerodynamics and behavior. Is this a lack of focus or a grand plan? Perhaps a little of both. In graduate school, I was trained as a sensory physiologist, studying the response properties of tiny mechanoreceptors on fly wings. At the time, there was much excitement about the use of information theory to characterize sensory neurons and debates were raging about frequency codes and rate codes. The power of the mathematics was enticing, but ultimately it is difficult to ascertain what a neuron is encoding by studying its properties in isolation; the important thing is what downstream neurons do with the information. While in graduate school I read a paper by Bob Josephson describing the so-called ‘work-loop analysis’ of a skeletal muscle. I think all neuroscientists should be familiar with this work, but in a nutshell it describes an elegant method for determining how a muscle interprets the neural input it receives. Reading that paper was revelatory for me because it demonstrated how much insight one can gain about one layer of a system by looking at another. The method also serves as a kind of Rosetta Stone between the fields of neuroscience and biomechanics. When I set up my Michael Dickinson
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011