Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-307

  Merchant, Hugo ^a,b   Battaglia Mayer, Alexandra ^b   Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent motion; Area 7a; Motor cortex; Rhesus monkeys; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MALE; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ILLUSIONS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 1142309499     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1664-5     Document Type: Article

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