Extracting kinematic parameters for monkey bipedal walking from cortical neuronal ensemble activity

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2009, Pages

  Fitzsimmons, Nathan A ^a,b   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^a,b   Peikon, Ian D ^b,c   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Locomotion; Neuronal ensemble recordings; Neuroprosthetics; Primate; Sensorimotor

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549116492     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.003.2009     Document Type: Article

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