Lateral cerebellar hemispheres actively support sensory acquisition and discrimination rather than motor control

Learning and Memory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-62

  Parsons, Lawrence M ^a   Bower, James M ^b   Gao, Jia Hong ^a   Xiong, Jinhu ^a   Li, Jinqi ^a   Fox, Peter T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030970297     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.4.1.49     Document Type: Article

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