A Central Source of Movement Variability

Neuron

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1085-1096

  Churchland, Mark M ^a,b   Afshar, Afsheen ^a,b   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL COUNT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33845416493     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.10.034     Document Type: Article

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