Encoding of movement fragments in the motor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5105-5114

  Hatsopoulos, Nicholas G ^a   Xu, Qingqing ^b   Amit, Yali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoding; Encoding; Motor cortex; Preferred direction; Regression; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; KINETICS; MONKEY; MOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248381729     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3570-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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