Processing of visual signals for direct specification of motor targets and for conceptual representation of action targets in the dorsal and ventral premotor cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3280-3294

  Yamagata, Tomoko ^a   Nakayama, Yoshihisa ^a   Tanji, Jun ^a   Hoshi, Eiji ^a  

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIRECT SPATIAL TARGET CUE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONKEY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBOLIC ACTION SELECTION CUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72749105605     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00452.2009     Document Type: Article

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