8th International Conference on
Functional Mapping of the Human Brain
June 2 - 6,2002, Sendai, JAPAN
Talairach Lecture
Parallel but differential use of multiple motor areas for motor selection
Jun Tanji
Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Motor selection is an essential aspect of voluntary action. To achieve motor selection under a variety of behavioral condition, how do we use multiple motor areas in the medial and lateral surface of the frontal cortex? I will summarize results of experimental studies in subhuman primates relevant to this question. Cellular activities in individual motor areas appear different at each phase of motor behavior, progressively leading to motor selection. HOME
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