MIP Seminar: Dr. Malcolm MacIver, Northwestern University "Why Planning Began on Land: Robot-Rodent Experiments on an Evolutionary Hypothesis"

Professor MacIver is interested in understanding how animals acquire sensory information and use that to guide movement and decision-making. This is a problem solved jointly by the body and the nervous system, and thus the studies his lab performs rarely fit into traditional academic disciplines, but rather span from computational modeling through to bio-inspired robotics, animal behavior studies and neurobiology.