Neural noise and movement-related codes in the macaque supplementary motor area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7630-7641

  Averbeck, Bruno B ^a   Lee, Daeyeol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated noise; Decoding; Monkey; Rate code; Spike count variability; Temporal code

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MACACA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0041419659     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-20-07630.2003     Document Type: Article

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