Cortical control of arm movements: A dynamical systems perspective

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue , 2013, Pages 337-359

  Shenoy, Krishna V ^a   Sahani, Maneesh ^a,b   Churchland, Mark M ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionality reduction; Neural control of movement; Premotor cortex; Primary motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRIATE CORTEX;

ARM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84880310601     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150509     Document Type: Review

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