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. . . and have a moving impact

Experimental evidence implicates synchronized activity among motor neurons in monkeys' ability to carry out planned actions.

References:

Hatsopoulos, N.G., et al. 1998. Information about movement direction obtained from synchronous activity of motor cortical neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Dec. 22):15706.

Sources:

Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
Brown University
Department of Neuroscience
Box 1953
Providence, RI 02912

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 8, February 20, 1999, p. 122. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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