The functional organization and cortical connections of motor cortex in squirrels

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1959-1978

  Cooke, Dylan F ^a   Padberg, Jeffrey ^b   Zahner, Tony ^a,c   Krubitzer, Leah ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3a; evolution; M1; primate; rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 84864911380     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr228     Document Type: Article

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