New insights into motor cortex

Michael S A Graziano

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.014

New insights into motor cortex

Neuron. 2011 Aug 11;71(3):387-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.014.

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Michael S A Graziano¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. graziano@princeton.edu

PMID: 21835337
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.014

Abstract

An exciting new experiment on the motor cortex of monkeys, by Shenoy and colleagues, begins to elucidate how the neuronal ensemble travels in a systematic fashion through state space. This trajectory through state space may help to explain how the motor cortex sets up and then triggers arm movements.

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