Cortical connections of parietal field PEc in the macaque: Linking vision and somatic sensation for the control of limb action

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2592-2604

  Bakola, Sophia ^a   Gamberini, Michela ^a   Passarelli, Lauretta ^a   Fattori, Patrizia ^a   Galletti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

arm reaching; leg representation; locomotion; posterior parietal cortex; proprioception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; LOWER EXTREMITY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 77957831048     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq007     Document Type: Article

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