Learning-Induced Improvement in Encoding and Decoding of Specific Movement Directions by Neurons in the Primary Motor Cortex

Rony Paz; Eilon Vaadia

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020045

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Learning-Induced Improvement in Encoding and Decoding of Specific Movement Directions by Neurons in the Primary Motor Cortex

Rony Paz ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ronyp@hbf.huji.ac.il

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Eilon Vaadia

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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Learning-Induced Improvement in Encoding and Decoding of Specific Movement Directions by Neurons in the Primary Motor Cortex

Rony Paz,
Eilon Vaadia

Published: February 17, 2004
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020045

About the Authors

Rony Paz

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ronyp@hbf.huji.ac.il

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Eilon Vaadia

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

RP and EV conceived and designed the experiments. RP and EV performed the experiments. RP analyzed the data. RP and EV wrote the paper. RP and EV performed the surgeries.

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