Cortical correlates of fitts' law

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Ifft, Peter J ^a,b   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^b,c   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Decision making; Fitts' law; Motor cortex; Neurophysiology; Neuroprosthetics; Sensorimotor transformation; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FITT LAW; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT TIME; MOVEMENT VELOCITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84855282463     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00085     Document Type: Article

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