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Behavior. Edited by Paul S.G. Stein, Sten Grillner, Allen I. Selverston and Douglas G. Stuart. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1997). 305 pages. g69.09. Contents: Series foreword. Preface. I. Selection and initiation of motor patterns. 1. Selection and initiation of motor behavior (Sten Grillner, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos and Larry M. Jordan). 2. The role of population coding in the control of movement (David L. Sparks, William B. Kristan, Jr. and Brian K. Shaw). 3. Neural substrates for initiation of startle responses (Roy E. Ritamann and Robert C. Eaton). II. Generation and formation of motor patterns: Cellular and systems properties. 4. Basic building blocks of vertebrate spinal central pattern generators (Ole Kiehn, Jern Hounsgaard and Keith T. Sillar). 5. Neural and biomechanical control strategies for different forms of vertebrate Hindlimb motor tasks (Paul S.G. Stein and Judith L. Smith). 6. Spinal networks and sensory feedback in the control of undulatory swimming in lamprey (Peter Wallen). 7. Spinal networks controlling swimming in hatchling Xenopw tadpoles (Alan Roberts, Steve R. Soffe and Ray Pen-ins). 8. Role of ionic currents in the operation of motor circuits in the Xenopw embryo (Nicholas Dale). 9. Integration of cellular and network mechanisms in mammalian oscillatory motor circuits: Insights from the respiratory oscillator (Jeffrey C. Smith). 10. Shared features of invertebrate central pattern generators (Allen I. Selverston, Yuri V. Panchin, Yuri I. Arshavsky and Grigori N. Orlovsky). 11. Intrinsic membrane properties and synaptic mechanisms in motor rhythm generators (Ronald L. Calabrese and Jack L. Feldman). 12. Organization of neural networks for the control of posture and locomotion in an insect (Malcolm Burrows).
III. Generation and formation of motor patterns: Computational approaches.
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How computation aids in understanding biological networks (Eve Marder, Nancy Kopell and Karen Sigvardt). 14. Dynamical systems analyses of real neuronal networks (John Guckenheimer and Peter Rowat).
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Realistic modeling of Burst generation and swimming in lamprey (Anders Lansner, 6rjan Ekeberg and Sten Grillner). 16. Integrate-andfire simulations of two molluscan neural circuits (William N. Frost, James R. Lieb, Jr., Mark J. TXmstall, Brett D. Mensh and Paul S. Katz).
IV. Modulation and reconfiguration. 17. Chemical modulation of vertebrate motor circuits (Keith T. Sillar, Ole Kiehn and Norio Kudo). 18. Modulation of neural circuits by steroid hormones in rodent and insect model systems (Janis C. Weeks and Bruce S. McEwen). 19. Chemical modulation of crustacean stomatogastric pattern generator networks (