A Path to Understanding How Motor Cortex Influences Muscle Activity

Emily R Oby; Byron M Yu

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.018

A Path to Understanding How Motor Cortex Influences Muscle Activity

Neuron. 2017 Aug 2;95(3):476-478. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.018.

Authors

Emily R Oby¹, Byron M Yu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
² Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: byronyu@cmu.edu.

PMID: 28772116
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.018

Abstract

The influence of motor cortex on muscles during different behaviors is incompletely understood. In this issue of Neuron, Miri et al. (2017) show that the population activity patterns produced by motor cortex during different behaviors determine the selective routing of signals along different pathways between motor cortex and muscles.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Action Potentials / physiology*
Animals
Humans
Motor Cortex / physiology*
Motor Neurons / physiology*
Movement / physiology*
Muscle Contraction / physiology*
Muscle, Skeletal / physiology*