Preparatory activity in motor cortex reflects learning of local visuomotor skills

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 882-890

  Paz, Rony ^a,b   Boraud, Thomas ^c   Natan, Chen ^a   Bergman, Hagai ^a,b   Vaadia, Eilon ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTATION;

EID: 0042208436     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1097     Document Type: Article

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