Manual dexterity: How does the cerebral cortex contribute?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10-11, 1996, Pages 948-956

  Darian Smith, Ian ^a   Galea, Mary P ^a   Darian Smith, Corinna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Corticospinal neurons; Macaque monkey; Parallel distributed processing; Spinal hemisection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0029831529     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb01147.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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