Direction of movement is encoded in the human primary motor cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Toxopeus, Carolien M ^a   de Jong, Bauke M ^a   Valsan, Gopal ^b   Conway, Bernard A ^b   Leenders, Klaus L ^a   Maurits, Natasha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SULCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EFFECTOR CELL; EYE HAND COORDINATION; EYE TRACKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGED; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 81155134306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027838     Document Type: Article

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