Object representation in the ventral premotor cortex (Area F5) of the monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2226-2230

  Murata, Akira ^b   Fadiga, Luciano ^a   Fogassi, Leonardo ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^a   Raos, Vassilis ^a   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HAND MOVEMENT; ILLUMINATION; MONKEY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0030766848     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.4.2226     Document Type: Article

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