Excess synchrony in motor cortical neurons provides redundant direction information with that from coarse temporal measures

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1700-1716

  Oram, Mike W ^a   Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G ^b   Richmond, Barry J ^c   Donoghue, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034792582     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2001.86.4.1700     Document Type: Article

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