To better understand how the brain and spinal cord coordinates the actions of multiple muscles to produce a host of movements – from breathing to object manipulation with the hand. Neuroscientists at Arizona study several aspects of the hierarchical motor system, using a variety of models and techniques, ranging from single neurons to behaving human subjects.
Faculty Researching Motor Systems
E. Fiona Bailey
Physiology
Shine Chin
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Stephen Cowen
Psychology
Ralph Fregosi
Physiology
Andrew Fuglevand
Physiology
GSAPC Chair
Paul Gignac
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Julie Miller
Neuroscience & Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences