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SUBMITTER: Pesaran B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2728060 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pesaran Bijan B Nelson Matthew J MJ Andersen Richard A RA
Nature 20080416 7193
We often face alternatives that we are free to choose between. Planning movements to select an alternative involves several areas in frontal and parietal cortex that are anatomically connected into long-range circuits. These areas must coordinate their activity to select a common movement goal, but how neural circuits make decisions remains poorly understood. Here we simultaneously record from the dorsal premotor area (PMd) in frontal cortex and the parietal reach region (PRR) in parietal cortex ...[more]