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

This book includes early historical notes and brief descriptions of classical studies of neuronal activity in frontal sensorimotor fields. It covers recent advanced approaches to motor cortex research and discusses the most exciting developments in motor cortex research, which exploits the accumulated technology and knowledge in developing neural prosthetic devices. This book presents current developments in motor cortex research, making it possible to "read and interpret neural activity" and use it to reconstruct movements. It focuses on how neuronal activity changes during learning, what the motor cortex encodes for, and the neuronal representations of voluntary movements and the mechanism of their generation during learning.

Pages: 448

Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience

Edition: 01

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Incorporated

Copyright: 2004

Published: 01/05