Motor primitives in vertebrates and invertebrates

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 660-666

  Flash, Tamar ^a   Hochner, Binyamin ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DYNAMICS; INVERTEBRATE; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; LANGUAGE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; ROBOTICS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 27944489902     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.10.011     Document Type: Review

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