Motor cortical activity during drawing movements: Population representation during spiral tracing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2693-2704

  Moran, Daniel W ^a   Schwartz, Andrew B ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; DRAWING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; JOINT FUNCTION; MONKEY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032738085     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.5.2693     Document Type: Article

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