Covariation of primate dorsal premotor cell activity with direction and amplitude during a memorized-delay reaching task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 152-165

  Messier, Julie ^a,b   Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; COVARIANCE; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0033930225     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.84.1.152     Document Type: Article

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