Sensory-Motor Integration: More Variability Reduces Individuality.
Motor neural networks and muscles produce identifiably common outputs, such as a trot or gallop, despite varations in intrinsic properties across individuals. New work shows that sensory input can induce the requisite decrease in across-individual variability even as it increases within-individual variability.
Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA. Electronic address: hooper@ohio.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D001048:Aplysia / Q000502:physiology*; D056228:Feedback, Sensory; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*