Cortical activity in the null space: Permitting preparation without movement

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 440-448

  Kaufman, Matthew T ^a,b,c   Churchland, Mark M ^d   Ryu, Stephen I ^b,e   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^e PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 84896689760     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3643     Document Type: Article

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