Invertebrate neurobiology: sensory processing in reverse for backward walking.
Humans and many other animals can readily walk forward or backward. In insects, the nervous system changes the effects of sense organs that signal forces on a leg when the direction of walking is reversed.
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Sasha N
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Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25701, USA. Sensillum@aol.com
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007313:Insecta / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*; D016474:Weight-Bearing