Representation of the midline trunk, bilateral arms, and shoulders in the monkey postcentral somatosensory cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 315-322

  Taoka, Miki ^a   Toda, Takashi ^a   Iwamura, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arm; Awake monkey; Bilateral neurons; Hierarchical information processing; Ipsilateral neurons; Postcentral gyrus; Shoulder; Trunk

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; FORELIMB; HAND; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SHOULDER; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; ARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SHOULDER; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THORAX;

EID: 0031729301     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050574     Document Type: Article

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