Sensorimotor processing articles within Nature Communications

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• Article | 26 June 2012

  Unravelling cerebellar pathways with high temporal precision targeting motor and extensive sensory and parietal networks

  The cerebellum has important roles in motor control and sensory perception. Sultan and colleagues use electrical stimulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging to reveal that the cerebellum provides inputs to specialized cortical regions of the brain that modulate cerebro-cortical processing.

  • Fahad Sultan
  • , Mark Augath
  •  & Peter Thier

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  23 August 2011 | Open Access

  Active sampling and decision making in Drosophila chemotaxis

  Drosophila melanogaster larvae demonstrate chemotaxis towards odours but their navigation mechanism is poorly understood. Using computer-vision tracking, Gomez-Marinet al.show that larvae ascend odour gradients using an active sampling strategy that is analogous to sniffing in vertebrates.

  • Alex Gomez-Marin
  • , Greg J. Stephens
  •  & Matthieu Louis