Frontal and parietal cortical ensembles predict single-trial muscle activity during reaching movements in primates

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1529-1540

  Santucci, David M ^a   Kralik, Jerald D ^b   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^a,c   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; EMG; Motor cortex; Multielectrode physiology; Posterior parietal cortex; Premotor cortex; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FRONTAL LOBE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRONTAL LOBE; LINEAR MODELS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SAIMIRI;

EID: 26644451169     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04320.x     Document Type: Article

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