Selected Publications

Central pattern generators

•    N. Kopell and G.B. Ermentrout. Coupled oscillators and the design of central pattern generators. Mathematical Biosciences, 1988; 90 (1-2), 87-109. doi 10.1016/0025-5564(88)90059-4.
•    N. Kopell. Toward a theory of modelling central pattern generators. In Neural control of rhythmic movements in vertebrates (book), A. Cohen, S. Grillner, S. Rossignol, eds., J. Wiley, New York, 1988;369-413.
•    J. Weimann, P. Skiebe, H. Heinzel, C. Soto, N. Kopell, J. Jorge-Rivera, and E. Marder. Modulation of oscillator interactions in the crab stomatogastric ganglion by crustacean cardioactive peptide. J. Neurosci., 1997;17:1748-60.
•    F. Skinner, N. Kopell, and B. Mulloney. How does the crayfish swimmeret system work: Insights from nearest-neighbor coupled oscillator models. J. Comp. Neurosci., 1997;4:151-60.
•    N. Kopell, L. Abbott, and C. Soto-Trevino. On the behavior of a neural oscillator electrically coupled to a bistable element. Physica D, 1998;121:367-95.
•    Y. Manor, F. Nadim, S. Epstein, J. Ritt, E. Marder, and N. Kopell. Network oscillations generated by balancing graded asymmetric reciprocal inhibition in passive neurons. J. Neurosci., 1999;19:1765-2779.
• * S. Jones, B. Mulloney, T. Kaper, and N. Kopell. Coordination of cellular pattern-generating circuits that control limb movements: The sources of stable differences in intersegmental phases. J. Neurosci., 2003;23:3457-68.
• * F. Nadim, Y. Manor, N. Kopell, and E. Marder. Synaptic depression creates a switch that
• controls the frequency of an oscillatory circuit. Proc. of Nat Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 10999;96:
• 8206 11.
•    S. Jones and N. Kopell. Local network parameters can affect inter-network phase lags in central pattern generators. J. Math. Biol., 2006;52:115-40.