BMI Seminar // Jean Michel Mongeau: How brains and bodies build flexible movement

Speaker: Jean Michel Mongeau Organiser: SV BMI Pavan Ramdya <p>Movement depends on nested sensorimotor loops that span multiple levels of control, from rapid stabilizing reflexes to goal-directed actions. A central challenge in motor neuroscience is to understand how these levels interact to produce flexible behavior, and where adaptation and sensory feedback are distributed across the hierarchy. In this talk, I will present a framework for studying motor control that combines experiments and theory at the interface of neuromechanics, control theory, and robotics. Using insect locomotion as an experimentally tractable model, I will show how vision and