ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
Mechanisms and Functions of Brain- Body- Environment Interactions in C. elegans
Recent large-scaRecent large-scale neuronal activity recordings in awake, behaving animals revealed a new, unexpected neuroscientific principle: widespread neuronal activity patterns across the brain encode parameters of movement. Surprisingly, these brain-wide behavior representations even extend to areas that are implicated in the processing of sensory information (e.g., the visual cortex in mice). Thus, a large fraction of the brain’s activity seems to be dedicated to representing the animals current, ongoing behavior. These observations have been made across the animal kingdom including worms, flies and mammals, suggesting a universal principle; however, the underlying mechanisms and…
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