Neural activity in primary motor and dorsal premotor cortex in reaching tasks with the contralateral versus ipsilateral arm

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 922-942

  Cisek, Paul ^a   Crammond, Donald J ^a   Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037322554     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00607.2002     Document Type: Article

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