Swallowing movements are produced by a central pattern generator located in the medulla oblongata. It has been established on the basis of microelectrode recordings that the swallowing network includes two main groups of neurons. One group is located within the dorsal medulla and contains the generator neurons involved in triggering, shaping, and timing the sequential or rhythmic swallowing pat...

A new construction of a pseudorandom generator based on a simple combination of two LFSRs is introduced. This construction allows users to generate a large family of sequences using the same initial states and the same characteristic feedback polynomials of the two combined LFSRs. The construction is related to the so-called shrinking generator that is a special case of this construction. The c...

We examined the features of spontaneous deletions of bursts of motoneuron activity that can occur within otherwise rhythmic alternating flexor and extensor activity during fictive locomotion and scratch in adult decerebrate cats. Deletions of activity were observed both in hindlimb flexor and extensor motoneuron pools during brainstem-stimulation evoked fictive locomotion but only in extensors ...