From intention to action: Motor cortex and the control of reaching movements

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 629, Issue , 2009, Pages 139-178

  Kalaska, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANIMAL; ARM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; JOINT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 61949408477     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77064-2_8     Document Type: Article

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