Cutaneous afferents provide a neuronal population vector that encodes the orientation of human ankle movements

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 580, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 649-658

  Aimonetti, Jean Marc ^a   Hospod, Valérie ^a   Roll, Jean Pierre ^a   Ribot Ciscar, Edith ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESTHESIA; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; CUTANEOUS AFFERENT; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN RECEPTOR;

EID: 34147177116     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.123075     Document Type: Article

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