Neuronal interactions improve cortical population coding of movement direction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 8083-8093

  Maynard, E M ^a   Hatsopoulos, N G ^b   Ojakangas, C L ^b   Acuna, B D ^b   Sanes, J N ^b   Normann, R A ^a   Donoghue, J P ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell assemblies; Correlation; Monkey; Motor cortex; Movement direction; Population coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033568867     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-18-08083.1999     Document Type: Article

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