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Nishal P Shah1, Donald Avansino2, Foram Kamdar1

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology
|October 24, 2023
PubMed
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The motor cortex combines simple finger movements into complex actions through pseudo-linear summation. Deviations from linearity, like neural activity normalization, impact movement representation and decoding accuracy.

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