Reply to Kurtzer and Herter [2]

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4391-4392

  Georgopoulos, Apostolos P ^a   Naselaris, Thomas ^b   Merchant, Hugo ^b   Amirikian, Bagrat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELBOW; JOINT FUNCTION; LETTER; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER;

EID: 34447517644     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00140.2007     Document Type: Letter

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