Movement Coding at the Mesoscale in Posterior Parietal Cortex.

Neuron

Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for Neural Computation, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Olav Kyrres Gate 9, MTFS, 7489 Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address:

Published: September 2017

Neural correlates of movement planning have been studied most commonly using signals isolated from single cells. However, in this issue of Neuron, Wilber et al. (2017) show that movement trajectories are encoded and replayed in the collective activity of thousands of cells at a time in the posterior parietal cortex.

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