Adaptation to a cortex-controlled robot attached at the pelvis and engaged during locomotion in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3110-3128

  Song, Weiguo ^a   Giszter, Simon F ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LOADING TEST; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROBOTICS; TREADMILL ERGOMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR CORTEX; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79951965001     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2335-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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