Differential relation of discharge in primary motor cortex and premotor cortex to movements versus actively maintained postures during a reaching task

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-61

  Crammond, Donald J ^a,b   Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Laboratory of Neurophysiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Monkey; Motor cortex; Movement; Posture; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0029883786     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00242903     Document Type: Article

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