Functional reorganization of the rat motor cortex following motor skill learning

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3321-3325

  Kleim, Jeffrey A ^a   Barbay, Scott ^a   Nudo, Randolph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032440820     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.6.3321     Document Type: Article

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