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1Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Research Group, University of Aberdeen, Kings College, Old Aberdeen, UK. d.carey@abdn. ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|June 6, 2000
Abstract:
Single-unit recording has revealed both hand and eye movement-related activity in the parietal cortex of the macaque monkey. These experiments, as well as neuropsychological studies, are unravelling the complex nature of how the eye and the hand work together in the control of visually guided movements.
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