Parietal area 5 activity does not reflect the differential time-course of motor output kinetics during arm-reaching and isometric-force tasks

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3353-3370

  Hamel Pâquet, Catherine ^a   Sergio, Lauren E ^b   Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; MALE; MONKEY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KINETICS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744943509     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00789.2005     Document Type: Article

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