New concepts of the supplementary motor area

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 782-787

  Tanji, Jun ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT SURVEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030478798     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80028-6     Document Type: Article

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