Primate Motor Cortex Summary

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On the Relations Between the Direction of Two-Dimensional Arm Movements and Cell Discharge in Primate Motor Cortex (Summary) Interacting with our environment through movement is essential for daily living. The motor cortex is implemented in voluntary limb movements, however the neural mechanisms by which this movement is carried out was not well understood. Georgopolos et al. (1982) wanted to figure out if a cell in the motor cortex would activate uniquely in only one direction of arm movement. Also a cell’s activity was not modulated by a particular directional movement, they wanted to quantify the relations between cellular activity and the direction of movement. To get at these questions, Georgopolos et al. (1982) recorded extracellular

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