Distributed processing in the motor system: Spinal cord perspective

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 130, Issue , 2001, Pages 267-278

  Prut, Yifat ^a   Perlmutter, Steve I ^a   Fetz, Eberhard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0035783783     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)30018-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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