Sentences with phrase «pattern generator networks»
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Looking deeper, Fraden studied how a type of neural network present in the eel, named the Central PatternGenerator, produces waves of chemical pulses that propagate down the eel's spine to rhythmically drive swimming muscles.
The discovery of motor patterngenerators, the neural network's underlying movements, in the spinal cord is already being used to re-establish locomotion in people paralyzed after spinal cord injury.»