Describe Recent Experimental Data Concerned with the Relationship Between Firing

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Essay

Describe recent experimental data concerned with the relationship between firing of neurons in motor cortex and the direction of movement of the limbs. Does the motor cortex appear to encode "muscles" or "movements"?

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