Motor Cortex is Functionally Organized as a Set of Spatially Distinct Representations for Complex Movements

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 13574-13585

  Brown, Andrew R ^a,b   Teskey, G Campbell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Intracortical microstimulation; Rat; Reversible lesion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUDAL FORELIMB AREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CRYOLOOP; ELBOW FLEXION; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; EXPERIMENTAL LOCOMOTOR ACTIVITY TEST; FORELIMB; GENERAL DEVICE; GRIP STRENGTH; INTRACORTICAL MICROSTIMULATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; LONG DURATION STIMULUS TEST; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL FORELIMB AREA; SHORT DURATION STIMULUS TEST; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COLD; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLD TEMPERATURE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84917704273     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2500-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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