Neural coding of movement direction in the healthy human brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Cowper Smith, Christopher D ^a   Lau, Esther Y Y ^b   Helmick, Carl A ^a   Eskes, Gail A ^a   Westwood, David A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

PRIMATES;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 78149440479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013330     Document Type: Article

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