Computational Neuroscience Journal Club
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Dhruva Raman will cover:
• Modular deconstruction reveals the dynamical and physical building blocks of a locomotion motor program.
• Bruno AM, Frost WN, Humphries MD
• Neuron (2015)
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25819612
Abstract: The neural substrates of motor programs are only well understood for small, dedicated circuits. Here we investigate how a motor program is constructed within a large network. We imaged populations of neurons in the Aplysia pedal ganglion during execution of a locomotion motor program. We found that the program was built from a very small number of dynamical building blocks, including both neural ensembles and low-dimensional rotational dynamics. These map onto physically discrete regions of the ganglion, so that the motor program has a corresponding modular organization in both dynamical and physical space. Using this dynamic map, we identify the population potentially implementing the rhythmic pattern generator and find that its activity physically traces a looped trajectory, recapitulating its low-dimensional rotational dynamics. Our results suggest that, even in simple invertebrates, neural motor programs are implemented by large, distributed networks containing multiple dynamical systems.
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Dhruva Raman (Control Group)
Tuesday 12 December 2017, 16:00-17:00