Developmental neuroscience: how twitches make sense.

Autor: Narayanan DZ; Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA., Ghazanfar AA; Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: asifg@princeton.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] 2014 Oct 06; Vol. 24 (19), pp. R971-2.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.052
Abstrakt: Animals refine the mechanics of their own bodies through sensorimotor feedback produced by physical interactions with the environment. A new study sheds light on how developing mammals may use sensations produced by spontaneous movements made during sleep to construct their sensorimotor maps.
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Databáze: MEDLINE