Assessing the Function of Motor Cortex: Single-Neuron Models of How Neural Response Is Modulated by Limb Biomechanics

Neuron

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 414-428

  Ajemian, Robert ^a   Green, Andrea ^b   Bullock, Daniel ^c,d   Sergio, Lauren ^e   Kalaska, John ^b   Grossberg, Stephen ^c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Science   (United States)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; ISOMETRICS; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; HAND; JOINTS; MACACA MULATTA; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; POSTURE; TORQUE;

EID: 42949179103     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.02.033     Document Type: Article

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