• Theme: Peripheral-to-cortex sensory pathways across species, mapping from receptors through spinal transmission to thalamic/cortical processing in visual and somatosensory systems [1], [7], [11], [19].

• Theme: Cellular and single-neuron mechanisms of sensory transduction, including intracellular Betz cells, spinal motoneurons, and cortical elements [6], [4], [13], [17], [9].

• Theme: Cortical/thalamic representations and coding of cutaneous/somatosensory modalities across species [7], [17], [14], [10].

• Theme: Brain-state modulation of sensory processing via reticular activating system and anesthetic mechanisms [15], [12], [10].

• Theme: Developmental and comparative proprioception/reflex circuits across taxa [2], [8], [13], [5], [19].