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@sicb.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 11:42 AM

Coming to #SICB Pittsburgh?

You won't want to miss symposium
Comparative #Neuromechanics of #Animal Sensing and Movement

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Organized by Kiisa Nishikawa ,Northern Arizona University, & more

#science #conference #biology #neuroscience

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How do #animals achieve stability, agility, and efficiency in movement across complex, changing #environments?

These capabilities arise from tight integration among sensing, neural control, muscles, and #biomechanics—often with cognition and task goals shaping what “good” control looks like. #Neuromechanics has emerged as a unifying interdisciplinary framework for explaining this integration, spanning #neuroscience, muscle #physiology, biomechanics, computer science, #robotics, and #bioengineering. Because these perspectives are distributed across SICB divisions (including Animal #Behavior, Comparative Biomechanics, #Invertebrate #Zoology, Neurobiology, #Neuroethology and Sensory Biology, and #Vertebrate #Morphology), a symposium centered on comparative neuromechanics would provide a timely venue for synthesis and cross-division exchange.

Key themes and questions to be addressed: Embodied control: How do muscle–tendon properties, limb and body design, and passive dynamics simplify (or constrain) neural control?

Sensing-through-moving: How does movement shape what animals can sense, and how do animals exploit active sensing to improve task-level performance? Stability and adaptability: What control strategies stabilize locomotion and manipulation across perturbations, contexts, and #morphologies? Comparative generality: Which neuromechanical principles are shared across taxa, and which are lineage- or environment-specific? Bridging scales: How do neural circuits and sensorimotor computations map onto whole-body mechanics and behavior?

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