Functional organization of human motor cortex: Directional selectivity for movement

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 8897-8905

  Eisenberg, Michal ^a   Shmuelof, Lior ^a,c   Vaadia, Eilon ^a,b   Zohary, Ehud ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; OXYGEN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954396385     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0007-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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