Computing reaching dynamics in motor cortex with Cartesian spatial coordinates

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1182-1201

  Tanaka, Hirokazu ^a,b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Cosine tuning; Joint angle representation; Motor control; Population vector; Reference frame; Spatial representation; Visually guided reaching

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CELL; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; TUNING CURVE; VISCOSITY; WRIST;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE;

EID: 84874102617     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00279.2012     Document Type: Article

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