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That’s the question being posed by Georgia Institute of Technology biomechanical neuroscientists as they use their studies of cat locomotion and balance to better understand how the human motor system operates in health and following paralyzing injury.  Collaborating with colleagues in Philadelphia and Canada, they have developed models of human cortical and spinal cord sensory and motor networks.  Understanding these systems may one day permit the construction of electronic nervous systems capable of replacing or enhancing damaged biological ones.

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230109191639.htm

 

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