CHIAPPE LAB

Think about how difficult moving around might be if you didn't have a sense of your body's configuration (standing, sitting, lying horizontally), and your body's speed. In fact, to ensure the success of the most trivial, or the most elaborate action, the brain of all animals, from insects to humans, has to simultaneously process and combine rapidly changing sensory information, while monitoring the position of all body parts, their speed of movement and the body's posture. Our lab is interested in understanding how the brain orchestrates all these signals to form an internal representation of self-movement, and how this representation controls locomotion.

Primary location: Lisbon Portugal