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- Graham Brown studied central pattern generators originating from the spinal cord
- Was a student of Sherrington
- Pretty much ignored until the 1960s
- Reflex arc is not as simplistic as earlier postulated, since sensory information converges and diverges not simply having a simple input-ouput.
- Earlier papers showed that after transaction of spinal cord the cat was still able to walk
- Sudden transaction produced locomotion even under anaesthesia even though electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerve didn't show any movement
- Suggested that there were two half-centers that reciprocally inhibited each other and that one of the half-centers was weaker to allow for the pattern to initiate.
- He says that reflexes are an exaggeration of the rhythmic behavior and sensory feedback was only to preserve the rhythmic movement
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