Cortical Preparatory Activity: Representation of Movement or First Cog in a Dynamical Machine?

Neuron

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 387-400

  Churchland, Mark M ^a   Cunningham, John P ^a,c   Kaufman, Matthew T ^b   Ryu, Stephen I ^a,d   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREPARATORY MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 78049285293     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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