Seventh Sense: A study of sensorimotor integration in the brainstem | General consideration of complexity in the brainstem and spinal cord

Understanding how animals coordinate multiple sensory inputs and make decisions on motor output is often a rather difficult set of experiments. Here, we take a more practical approach to explain the pragmatic set of experiments done to describe and attempt to evaluate the meaning of a few specific sensory connections in several areas of the brain in accordance to how how sensorimotor integration may be possible. These direct anatomical connections have been difficult to discern and may be important to researchers in the neurosciences and can be intriguing.