Distributed sensitivity for movement amplitude in directionally tuned neuronal populations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1845-1856

  Fabbri, Sara ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b   Lingnau, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional tuning; Functional magnetic resonance imaging adaptation; Movement direction; Movement extent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859550637     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00435.2011     Document Type: Article

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