The Role of Identified Cells in Directional Motor Behavior

小行星9604629 大多数运动都是朝向或远离环境中的特定对象。这个项目研究神经系统中的细胞如何将进入大脑的感觉信号转化为编码命令，指导生物体的目标导向运动。 该项目通过映射将感觉系统连接到控制肢体运动的命令神经元的神经回路，通过记录这些命令神经元对不同类型的感觉刺激的反应，以及通过选择性地刺激或阻断控制运动的回路中的命令神经元的活动来实现这一点。这些实验的结果提供了重要的信息，了解神经系统如何控制目标导向的运动，也应该对机器人控制器和人类假肢设备的设计的影响。

9604629 Comer Most movements are oriented toward or away from specific objects in the environment. This project investigates how cells in the nervous system transform sensory signals entering the brain into coded commands that direct an organism's goal directed movements. The project accomplishes this by mapping the neural circuits connecting sensory systems to the command neurons controlling limb movement, by recording the responses of these command neurons to different types of sensory stimulation, and by selectively stimulating or blocking the activity of command neurons in the circuitry controlling movement. The results of these experiments provide information important to understanding how the nervous system controls goal-directed movement and should also implications for the design of robotic controllers and human prosthetic devices.