Is the medial posterior parietal area V6A a single functional area?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5145-5157

  Gamberini, Michela ^a   Galletti, Claudio ^a   Bosco, Annalisa ^a   Breveglieri, Rossella ^a   Fattori, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HAND GRIP; HEMISPHERE; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VISUOMOTOR MEDIAL POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX V6A;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79955707317     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5489-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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