Evidence against a single coordinate system representation in the motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 197-210

  Wu, Wei ^a   Hatsopoulos, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOINT; MALE; MOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TORQUE; VARIANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; KINESICS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33750335190     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0556-x     Document Type: Article

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