Motor cortex control of a complex peripheral apparatus: The neuromuscular evolution of individuated finger movements

Motor Cortex in Voluntary Movements: A Distributed System for Distributed Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 87-108

  Schieber, Marc H ^a   Reilly, Karen T ^a   Lang, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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