Dynamic encoding of movement direction in motor cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 44, 2009, Pages 13870-13882

  Rickert, Jörn ^a   Riehle, Alexa ^b   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Rotter, Stefan ^a   Nawrot, Martin P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MOTION; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 70449449631     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5441-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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