Decoding the activity of grasping neurons recorded from the ventral premotor area F5 of the macaque monkey

Neuroscience

Volumn 188, Issue , 2011, Pages 80-94

  Carpaneto, J ^a   Umilta M A ^b,c   Fogassi, L ^b,c   Murata, A ^d   Gallese, V ^b,c   Micera, S ^a,e   Raos, V ^f,g  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^g INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decoding; Grasping; Hand configuration; Neuroprosthesis; Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND GRIP; HAPLORHINI; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 80053636567     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.04.062     Document Type: Article

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