Position, direction of movement, and speed tuning of cerebellar Purkinje cells during circular manual tracking in monkey

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 40, 2005, Pages 9244-9257

  Roitman, Alexander V ^a   Pasalar, Siavash ^a,b   Johnson, Michael T V ^a   Ebner, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Directional tuning; Positional tuning; Primate; Simple spike; Speed tuning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SPIKE; VELOCITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; HAND; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURKINJE CELLS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 27144482149     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1886-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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