Cerebellar structure and function: Making sense of parallel fibers

Human Movement Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 99-109

  Heck, Detlef ^a   Sultan, Fahad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Spatio temporal activity; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM CONDUCTANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURKINJE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 0036749047     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9457(02)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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