title: Developmental neuroscience: how twitches make sense.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Darshana Z
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Narayanan
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: asifg@princeton.edu.
authors.forename: Asif A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ghazanfar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement; D011434:Proprioception; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012895:Sleep, REM