The activity of primary motor cortex corticospinal neurons during tool use by macaque monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 17351-17364

  Quallo, Marsha M ^a   Kraskov, Alexander ^a   Lemon, Roger N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECISION GRIP; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAKE TASK; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84870223372     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1009-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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