Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Context-dependent limb movement encoding in neuronal populations of motor cortex

  • Wolfgang Omlor,
  • Anna-Sophia Wahl,
  • Pia Sipilä,
  • Henry Lütcke,
  • Balazs Laurenczy,
  • I-Wen Chen,
  • Lazar T. Sumanovski,
  • Marcel van ’t Hoff,
  • Philipp Bethge,
  • Fabian F. Voigt,
  • Martin E. Schwab,
  • Fritjof Helmchen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12670-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Network activity in primary motor cortex (M1) controls dexterous limb movements. Here, the authors show that the M1 population code varies according to contextual motor demands that are conveyed via the secondary motor cortex (M2).