Varieties of paw and digit movement during spontaneous food handling in rats: Postures, bimanual coordination, preferences, and the effect of forelimb cortex lesions

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 135-148

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Coles, Brenda L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Corticospinal system and limb use; Digit use; Kinematics and reaching; Laterality and limb use; Reaching and somatic sensorimotor cortex; Skilled reaching; Spontaneous limb use

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FOOD INTAKE; FOOT; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0029884912     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00209-X     Document Type: Article

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