Descending systems translate transient cortical commands into a sustained muscle activation signal

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1904-1914

  Shalit, Uri ^a   Zinger, Nofya ^a   Joshua, Mati ^b   Prut, Yifat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

motor control; motor cortex; mutual information; spinal cord; tuning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SUPINE POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORQUE; WRIST;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; POSTURE; SPINAL CORD; WRIST;

EID: 84863644654     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr267     Document Type: Article

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