Nonuniform distribution of reach-related and torque-related activity in upper arm muscles and neurons of primary motor cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3220-3230

  Kurtzer, Isaac ^a   Herter, Troy M ^a   Scott, Stephen H ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; HAND MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TORQUE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; SHOULDER; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751547868     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00110.2006     Document Type: Article

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