Complexity Digest 2006.44 - 14

30-Oct-2006

Mapping Information Flow in Sensorimotor Networks, PLoS Comput Biol Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: How neurons encode and process information is a key problem in computational biology and neuroscience. In this paper, Lungarella and Sporns present a novel application of computational methods to the integration of neural and sensorimotor processes at the systems-level scale. The central result of their study is that sensorimotor interaction and body morphology can induce statistical regularities and information structure in sensory inputs and within the neural control architecture