Multiple Types of Movement-Related Information Encoded in Hindlimb/Trunk Cortex in Rats and Potentially Available for Brain-Machine Interface Controls

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2712-2716

  Song, Weiguo ^a   Ramakrishnan, Arun ^b   Udoekwere, Ubong I ^b   Giszter, Simon F ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface (BMI); locomotion; motorcortex; trunk hindlimb

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 73949161368     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2026284     Document Type: Article

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