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. 2005 Apr;25(2):223–244. doi: 10.1007/s10571-005-3154-8

A Neural Infrastructure for Rhythmic Motor Patterns

Allen I Selverston 1,2,✉
PMCID: PMC11529643  PMID: 16050035

Abstract

It is possible to work out the neural circuity of many invertebrate central pattern generators (CPGs) thereby providing a basis for linking cellular processes to actual behaviors. This review summarizes the infrastructure of the two CPGs in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion in terms of circuitry, ionic conductances and chemical modulation by amines and peptides. Analysis of the circuit using modeling techniques including the use of electronic neurons closes the chapter.

Keywords: stomatogastric ganglion, lobster, central pattern generator, neural circuits

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