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Recent advances in motor behaviour research rely on detailed knowledge of the characteristics of the neurons and networks that generate motor behaviour. At the cellular level, neurons, networks, and motor behaviour describes the computational characteristics of individual neurons and how these characteristics are modified by neuromodulators. At the network and behavioural levels, this volume discusses how network structure is dynamically modulated to produce adaptive behaviour. Comparisons of model systems throughout the animal kingdom provide insights into general principles of motor control. Contributors describe how networks generate such motor behaviours as walking, swimming, flying, scratching, reaching, breathing, feeding, and chewing. An emerging principle of organization is that nervous systems are remarkably efficient in constructing neural networks that control multiple tasks and dynamically adapt to change.

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Unlike conference proceedings that consist solely of technical reports, this book would be more accurately described as a seminar on motor control offered by luminaries in the field. Every chapter has obviously been written with the nonspecialist in mind, usually providing background and explanations of technical terms that make the subject more accessible to students and to those in other fields who wish to understand current issues in motor control.... All in all, this book should serve as a useful primer of contemporary research on motor systems for some years to come. --Fred Delcomyn, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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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).

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