Targeted activation of specific nerve cells using pulses of light alleviates motor impairments in an animal model of...
Category - Motor Systems
Pause and Rewind: How the Brain Keeps Time to Control Action
MPFI Scientists have discovered how two brain areas work together like an hourglass to flexibly control movement timing...
Motor control from non-motor brain areas
Imagine sensing the world with just your fingertips – not by holding, but by lightly brushing past objects as you move...
The challenge of pursuit
How saccades enable mammals to simultaneously chase prey and navigate through complex environments By reconstructing what...
HALT! Scientists decode brain mechanisms of stopping
Ever wish you could stop that fruit fly on your kitchen counter in its tracks? Scientists at Max Planck Florida Institute...
Neural circuits for survival instincts
Vanessa Stempel receives an ERC Starting Grant to investigate brain circuits supporting instinctive behaviors ...
Distributed workload in the fly brain
To distinguish motion patterns, a neuronal computation is performed three times in a row Recognizing motion requires an...
Vision in the brain – hardwired for action
Brain circuits for vision develop without any input from the retina in zebrafish Animals possess specialized networks of...
Poetic birdsong, precisely tuned
Nightingales match the pitch of their whistle songs to those of their rivals in real time Nightingales are well known for...
How does a skeleton move? – A new tracking method to...
How can we measure a skeleton’s motion in a furry animal as it moves through its environment? Researchers at the Max...