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The cortical control of movement revisited
Michael S A Graziano1, Charlotte S R Taylor, Tirin Moore
1Department of Psychology, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. graziano@princeton.edu
Neuron
|November 1, 2002
Abstract:
Recently, we found that electrical stimulation of motor cortex caused monkeys to make coordinated, complex movements. These evoked movements were arranged across the cortex in a map of spatial locations to which the hand moved. We suggest that some of the subdivisions previously described within primary motor and premotor cortex may represent different types of actions that monkeys tend to make in different regions of space. According to this view, primary and premotor cortex may fit together into a larger map of manual space.