Adaptive behavioral reactions of reaching in rats following discrete somatosensorimotor cortex lesions

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 255-263

  Šaling, Marian ^a,b   Sitárová, Tatiana ^a   Zlatoš, Ján ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Motor control; Rat; Reaching; Somatosensorimotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRAINING;

EID: 0342468264     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02149-3     Document Type: Article

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