Intentional signals during saccadic and reaching delays in the human posterior parietal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1871-1885

  Galati, Gaspare ^a,b   Committeri, Giorgia ^c   Pitzalis, Sabrina ^b,d   Pelle, Gina ^c   Patria, Fabiana ^b   Fattori, Patrizia ^e   Galletti, Claudio ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human lateral intraparietal area; Medial intraparietal area

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455187921     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07885.x     Document Type: Article

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