Neuronal populations in primary motor cortex encode bimanual arm movements

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1371-1380

  Steinberg, O ^a   Donchin, O ^b   Gribova, A ^a   Cardoso de Oliveira, S ^c   Bergman, H ^a   Vaadia, Eilon ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Electrophysiology; Macaca mulatta; Population vector; Single cell recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MACACA; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036460249     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01968.x     Document Type: Article

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