Arm-movement-related neurons in the primate superior colliculus and underlying reticular formation: Comparison of neuronal activity with EMGs of muscles of the shoulder, arm and trunk during reaching

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-205

  Werner, Wilfried ^a   Dannenberg, Sabine ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arm movement; Electromyogram; Monkey; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NECK MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; ARM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK MUSCLES; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; SHOULDER; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THORAX;

EID: 0030996516     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005690     Document Type: Article

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