Neural coding of finger and wrist movements

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-288

  Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b   Pellizzer, Giuseppe ^a,b   Poliakov, Andrew V ^c   Schieber, Marc H ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger movements; Population vector; Tuning

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; VECTOR SPACES;

FINGER MOVEMENTS; FLEXION-EXTENSION; MOTOR CORTICAL NEURONS; MOTOR-CORTEX; NEURAL CODING; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; POPULATION VECTORS; SPATIAL LOCATION; TUNING; WRIST MOVEMENTS;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST;

EID: 0033053889     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008810007672     Document Type: Article

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