Connected corticospinal sites show enhanced tuning similarity at the onset of voluntary action

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 12349-12357

  Yanai, Yuval ^a   Adamit, Nofya ^a   Harel, Ran ^a,b   Israel, Zvi ^c   Prut, Yifat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Corticospinal connectivity; Directional tuning; Motor control; Motor cortex; Noise correlation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 36048976254     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3127-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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