
EMBO Member
Jonathan R. Whitlock
EMBO 2024
Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Neural representation of posture and actions
My research seeks to establish how cortical networks coordinate body posture while freely moving animals interact with their 3D environment. We do this by combining high-fidelity tracking of the face, head and trunk with large-scale neural recordings. A major goal is to understand how population codes of stimuli from the outside world interact dynamically with population codes for the posture of the behaving individual.
Keywords
Behaviour / posture / kinematics / neurophysiology / parietal cortex / motor cortex / navigation