Coding of movement- and force-related information in primate primary motor cortex: A computational approach

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 250-260

  Guigon, Emmanuel ^a   Baraduc, Pierre ^b   Desmurget, Michel ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

Computer; Control; Force; Muscle; Neuron

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELBOW; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHOULDER;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HAPLORHINI; KINETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRIMATES;

EID: 34447120230     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05634.x     Document Type: Article

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