Direction of action is represented in the ventral premotor cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1020-1025

  Kakei, Shinji ^a   Hoffman, Donna S ^a   Strick, Peter L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM; MACACA; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREARM; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 0034816944     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn726     Document Type: Article

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