Limited functional grouping of neurons in the motor cortex hand area during individuated finger movements: A cluster analysis

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3488-3505

  Poliakov, Andrew V ^a   Schieber, Marc H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; MALE; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033400228     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.6.3488     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. ARBIB, M. A., IBERALL, T., AND LYONS, D. Coordinated control programs for movements of the hand. In: Hand Function and the Neocortex, edited by A. W. Goodwin and I. Darian-Smith. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1985, p. 111-129.
2. ASHE, J. AND GEORGOPOULOS, A. P. Movement parameters and neural activity in motor cortex and area 5. Cereb. Cortex 4: 590-600, 1994.
3. BUYS, E. J., LEMON, R. N., MANTEL, G. W., AND MUIR, R. B. Selective facilitation of different hand muscles by single corticospinal neurones in the conscious monkey. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 381: 529-549, 1986.
4. CHENEY, P. D. AND FETZ, E. E. Comparable patterns of muscle facilitation evoked by individual corticomotoneuronal (CM) cells and by single intra-cortical microstimuli in primates: evidence for functional groups of CM cells. J. Neurophysiol. 53: 786-804, 1985.
5. CHENEY, P. D., FETZ, E. E., AND PALMER, S. S. Patterns of facilitation and suppression of antagonist forelimb muscles from motor cortex sites in the awake monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 53: 805-820, 1985.
6. FETZ, E. E. AND CHENEY, P. D. Postspike facilitation of forelimb muscle activity by primate corticomotoneuronal cells. J. Neurophysiol. 44: 751-772, 1980.
7. FU, Q. G., FLAMENT, D., COLTZ, J. D., AND EBNER, T. J. Temporal encoding of movement kinematics in the discharge of primate primary motor and premotor neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 73: 836-854, 1995.
8. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., ASHE, J., SMYRNIS, N., AND TAIRA, M. The motor cortex and the coding of force. Science 256: 1692-1695, 1992.
9. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., KALASKA, J. F., CAMINITI, R., AND MASSEY, J. T. On the relations between the direction of two-dimensional arm movements and cell discharge in primate motor cortex. J. Neurosci. 2: 1527-1537, 1982.
10. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., LURITO, J. T., PETRIDES, M., SCHWARTZ, A. B., AND MASSEY, J. T. Mental rotation of the neuronal population vector. Science 243: 234-236, 1989.
11. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., PELLIZZER, G., POLIAKOV, A. V., AND SCHIEBER, M. H. Neural coding of finger and wrist movements. J. Comput. Neurosci. 6: 279-288, 1999.
12. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., SCHWARTZ, A. B., AND KETTNER, R. E. Neuronal population coding of movement direction. Science 233: 1416-1419, 1986.
13. GEORGOPOULOS, A. P., TAIRA, M., AND LUKASHIN, A. Cognitive neurophysiology of the motor cortex. Science 260: 47-52, 1993.
14. GISZTER, S. F., MUSSA-IVALDI, F. A., AND BIZZI, E. Convergent force fields organized in the frog's spinal cord. J. Neurosci. 13: 467-491, 1993.
15. HUMPHREY, D. R. Representation of movements and muscles within the primate precentral motor cortex: historical and current perspectives. Fed. Proc. 45: 2687-2699, 1986.
16. IBERALL, T. AND FAGG, A. H. Neural network models for selecting hand shapes. In: Hand and Brain, edited by A. M. Wing, P. Haggard, and J. R. Flanagan. San Diego: Academic, 1996, p. 243-264.
17. JOHNSON, R. A. AND WICHERN, D. W. Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.
18. KASSER, R. J. AND CHENEY, P. D. Characteristics of corticomotoneuronal postspike facilitation and reciprocal suppression of EMG activity in the monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 53: 959-978, 1985.
19. LEMON, R. The output map of the primate motor cortex. Trends Neurosci. 11: 501-506, 1988.
20. LEMON, R. N., MANTEL, G. W., AND MUIR, R. B. Corticospinal facilitation of hand muscles during voluntary movement in the conscious monkey. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 381: 497-527, 1986.
21. MANTEL, G. W. AND LEMON, R. N. Cross-correlation reveals facilitation of single motor units in thenar muscles by single corticospinal neurones in the conscious monkey. Neurosci. Lett. 77: 113-118, 1987.
22. MCKIERNAN, B. J., MARCARIO, J. K., KARRER, J. H., AND CHENEY, P. D. Corticomotoneuronal postspike effects in shoulder, elbow, wrist, digit, and intrinsic hand muscles during a reach and prehension task. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 1961-1980, 1998.
23. PENFIELD, W. AND RASMUSSEN, T. The Cerebral Cortex of Man. New York: MacMillan, 1950.
24. PHILLIPS, C. G. Laying the ghost of "muscles versus movements." Can. J. Neurol. Sci. 2: 209-218, 1975.
25. POLIAKOV, A. V. AND SCHIEBER, M. H. Functional grouping of neurons of the primary motor cortex during individuated finger movements: a cluster analysis. Soci. Neurosci. Abstr. 24: 403, 1998.
26. PORTER, R. AND LEMON, R. N. Corticospinal Function and Voluntary Movement. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
27. RIZZOLATTI, G., CAMARDA, R., FOGASSI, L., GENTILUCCI, M., LUPPINO, G., AND MATELLI, M. Functional organization of inferior area 6 in the macaque monkey. II. Area F5 and the control of distal movements. Exp. Brain Res. 71: 491-507, 1988.
28. SANTELLO, M. AND SOECHTING, J. F. Matching object size by controlling finger span and hand shape. Somatosens. Mot. Res. 14: 203-212, 1997.
29. SCHIEBER, M. H. How might the motor cortex individuate movements? Trends Neurosci. 13: 440-445, 1990.
30. SCHIEBER, M. H. Individuated finger movements of rhesus monkeys: a means of quantifying the independence of the digits. J. Neurophysiol. 65: 1381-1391, 1991.
31. SCHIEBER, M. H. Muscular production of individuated ringer movements: the roles of extrinsic finger muscles. J. Neurosci. 15: 284-297, 1995.
32. SCHIEBER, M. H. AND HIBBARD, L. S. How somatotopic is the motor cortex hand area? Science 261: 489-492, 1993.
33. SCHIEBER, M. H. AND POLIAKOV, A. V. Partial inactivation of the primary motor cortex hand area: effects on individuated finger movements. J. Neurosci. 18: 9038-9054, 1998.
34. SCHWARTZ, A. B. Motor cortical activity during drawing movements: population representation during sinusoid tracing. J. Neurophysiol. 70: 28-36, 1993.
35. SHINODA, Y., YOKOTA, J., AND FUTAMI, T. Divergent projection of individual corticospinal axons to motoneurons of multiple muscles in the monkey. Neurosci. Lett. 23: 7-12, 1981.
36. SHINODA, Y., ZARZECKI, P., AND ASANUMA, H. Spinal branching of pyramidal tract neurons in the monkey. Exp. Brain Res. 34: 59-72, 1979.
37. SOECHTING, J. F. AND FLANDERS, M. Flexibility and repeatability of finger movements during typing: analysis of multiple degrees of freedom. J. Comput. Neurosci. 4: 29-46, 1997.
38. WALSHE, F.M.R. Critical Studies in Neurology. London: E. and S. Livingstone, 1948.
39. WIDENER, G. L. AND CHENEY, P. D. Effects on muscle activity from micro-stimuli applied to somatosensory and motor cortex during voluntary movement in the monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 2446-2465, 1997.
40. WOOLSEY, C. N., SETTLAGE, P. H., MEYER, D. R., SENCER, W., HAMUY, T. P., AND TRAVIS, A. M. Patterns of localization in precentral and "supplementarymotor areas and their relation to the concept of a premotor area. Res. Pub. Assoc. Res. Nerve Ment. Dis. 30: 238-264, 1951.
41. YOUNG, M. P. AND YAMANE, S. Sparse population coding of faces in the inferotemporal cortex. Science 256: 1327-1331, 1992.