Interval time coding by neurons in the presupplementary and supplementary motor areas

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 502-507

  Mita, Akihisa ^a   Mushiake, Hajime ^a   Shima, Keisetsu ^a   Matsuzaka, Yoshiya ^a   Tanji, Jun ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONKEY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 63649150284     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2272     Document Type: Article

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