SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE N623 - Week 12
Voluntary movement, Central motor system
Introductory Readings for discussion on November 17.
Principles of Neuroscience (2000)
eds. Kandel, ER, Schwartz, JH, and Jessel, TM.
Chapter 38.
Original Literature Readings for discussion on November 17.
Evarts EV (1966)
Pyramidal tract activity associated with a conditioned hand
movement in the monkey.
J Neurophysiol 29:1011-1027.
Fetz EE, Cheney PD (1980)
Postspike facilitation of forelimb muscle activity
by primate corticomotoneuronal cells. J Neurophysiol 44:751-772.
Georgopoulos AP, Schwartz AB, Kettner RE (1986)
Neuronal population coding
of movement direction. Science 233:1416-1419.
Original Literature Readings for discussion on November 20.
Kakei S, Hoffman DS, Strick PL (1999)
Muscle and movement representations in
the primary motor cortex. Science 285:2136-2139.
Tanji J, Shima K (1994)
Role for supplementary motor area cells in planning
several movements ahead. Nature. 1994 371:413-416.
Jueptner M, Stephan KM, Frith CD, Brooks DJ, Frackowiak RS, Passingham RE (1997)
Anatomy of motor learning. I. Frontal cortex and attention to action.
J Neurophysiol 77:1313-1324.
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