Motor coordination.
Our treatment of this subject is
illustrated in:
I. Hartman, E.
Gruntman, and I. Golani, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, and
E.
Hauben, A. Gothilf, and M.Schwartz, Department of Neurobiology of The
Weizmann Institute of Science.
A video-clip demonstrating the data-acquisition process (left) and an animated reconstruction of the same behavior (right).
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The animated reconstruction of the gaits of a rat after severe spinal cord contusive injury (top), a recovered rat after treatment with dendritic cells pulsed with an altered peptide derived from myelin basic protein (center), and a healthy rat (buttom).
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corresponding videos.
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- Animations prepared by Neri Kafkafi, presently at The Maryland
Psychiatric Research Institute (Kafkafi et al., 1996; Kafkafi and Golani, 1998)
which accompany the Kafkafi and Golani (1998) paper. The first animation
explains the application of the concept of relative phase to unrestrained
locomotor behavior. You would first have to download
Mathreader and then
click Animation of relative phase.
The second animation shows that ferret locomotor behavior involves a travelling, rather than a standing wave of lateral movement. This is accomplished by coloring each of the parts of the body of the animated animal in correspondence with its current phase of movement. To see it click Phase animation in ferret.
Coordination of side-to-side head movements and walking in
amphetamine-treated rats:
- a stereotyped motor pattern as a stable equilibrium in a
dynamical system
Neri Kafkafi , Stavit Levi-Havusha , Ilan Golani , Yoav Benjamini
Volume 74, Issue 6, pp 487-495
Biological Cybernetics, Feb 14, 1996
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- A traveling wave of lateral movement coordinates both turning and forward
walking in the ferret
Neri Kafkafi , Ilan Golani
Volume 78, Issue 6, pp 441-453
Biological Cybernetics, Jul 20, 1998
Download article in PDF format here