Transformation of descending commands into muscle activity by spinal interneurons in behaving primates

Motor Neurobiology of the Spinal Cord

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 193-214

  Perlmutter, Steve I ^a   Prut, Yifat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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