32 33 Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) have bilateral pairs of giant interneurons that control 34 rapid escape movements in response to predatory threats. The medial giant neurons 35 (MGs) can be made to fire an action potential by visual or tactile stimuli directed to the 36 front of the animal and this leads to an escape tail-flip that thrusts the animal directly 37 backwards. The lateral giant...

BACKGROUND A poor postural stability in older people is associated with an increased risk of falling. The posturographic tool has widely been used to assess balance control; however, its value in predicting falls remains unclear. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this prospective study was to determine the predictive value of posturography in the estimation of the risk of recurrent falls, including a ...

The scientific literature has grown rich in research illustrating the remarkable ability of the brain to reorganize itself following sensory loss. In particular, visually deafferented regions within the occipital cortex of early blind individuals have been repeatedly shown to be functionally recruited to carry out a wide variety of nonvisual tasks. While the novelty of such a finding might be w...

Comparison of the functional organization of sensory modalities can reveal the specialized mechanisms unique to each modality as well as processing algorithms that are common across modalities. Here we examine the rodent whisker system. The whisker's mechanical properties shape the forces transmitted to specialized receptors. The sensory and motor systems are intimately interconnected, giving r...

To gain a synthetic understanding of the emergence of babies’ goal-directed behaviors that are important for early development, we constructed an early developmental scenario for self-organization of these behaviors. This scenario is guided by a principle of sensorimotor integration based on sensory constraints. We constructed a neural model to represent our proposed scenario with simplified bu...