Muscle synergies evoked by microstimulation are preferentially encoded during behavior

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Overduin, Simon A ^a   d'Avella, Andrea ^b   Carmena, Jose M ^a,c,d   Bizzi, Emilio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Grasping; Hand; Macaque; Motor; Movement; Muscle; Synergy

Indexed keywords

MOTORS; MUSCLE;

CORTEX; GRASPING; HAND; MACAQUE; MOVEMENT; SYNERGY;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING ORGAN SYSTEMS; CARRY; DORSAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRASP; HAND MOVEMENT; INTRACORTICAL MICROSTIMULATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SYNERGISM; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; REACH; RHESUS MONKEY; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 84897005227     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00020     Document Type: Article

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