Redundant information encoding in primary motor cortex during natural and prosthetic motor control

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 555-561

  So, Kelvin ^a   Ganguly, Karunesh ^b,c   Jimenez, Jessica ^a   Gastpar, Michael C ^a,d   Carmena, Jose M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Electrophysiology; Motor control; Mutual information; Neural ensemble; Primary motor cortex

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEURAL PROSTHESES; PROSTHETICS; REDUNDANCY; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ARM MOVEMENTS; BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION ENCODING; MACHINE INTERFACES; MOTOR CONTROL; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEURAL ENSEMBLES; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REDUNDANT ENCODING;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA MULATTA; MACHINE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84863881753     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-011-0369-1     Document Type: Article

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