Early coding of reaching: Frontal and parietal association connections of parieto-occipital cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3339-3345

  Caminiti, Roberto ^a   Genovesio, Aldo ^a   Marconi, Barbara ^a   Mayer, Alexandra Battaglia ^a   Onorati, Paolo ^a   Ferraina, Stefano ^a   Mitsuda, Takashi ^a   Giannetti, Stefano ^b   Squatrito, Salvatore ^c   Maioli, Maria Grazia ^c   Molinari, Marco ^b,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Association connections; Early mechanisms; Frontal cortex; Parieto occipital cortex; Reaching

Indexed keywords

DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; FAST BLUE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032849302     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00801.x     Document Type: Article

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