Spatiotemporal organization of neuronal activity in the cervical cord of behaving primates

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Sher, Yoel ^a,b   Cohen, Oren ^a   Zinger, Nofya ^a   Harel, Ran ^c   Rubinsky, Boris ^b,d   Prut, Yifat ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraspinal stimulation; Motor control; MUA; Neural modules; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877774156     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00195     Document Type: Article

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