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Walking the walk

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Central pattern generators provide the basic stepping pattern in walking, but cannot adjust for the environment. A new study of human locomotion shows a pattern of changes in independent neural controllers for left and right legs.

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Figure 1: Four neural systems are postulated, controlling forward (FW) and backward (BW) walking in left and right legs.

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  1. R. Christopher Miall is in the Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. r.c.miall@bham.ac.uk,

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