Takashi Kitsukawa
Associate Professor,Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences,Osaka University

Our behavior encompasses many rhythmic movements, exemplified by those used in running and playing musical instruments. To perform such behavior requires not only the correct execution of each action component, but also the lining up each component into a sequence at timing suitable for the behavior.

The aim of this study is to clarify how such behavior is formed by using a running wheel system, in which the mouse is trained to perform complex and sequential stepping, and how the neural system generates the behavior by recording neuronal activity as the mouse runs in the running wheel.

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