Coordinate system representations of movement direction in the premotor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 652-657

  Wu, Wei ^a   Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARM; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846585995     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0818-7     Document Type: Article

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