Frontal Cortex Control of Remembered Movement Sequences

罗纳德凯特纳博士将研究两个基本问题：1）如何 dofrontal皮质区控制手臂的快速运动， 空间目标序列; 2）这些序列是如何 在之前的延迟期间存储在短期记忆中， 运动启动？ 他的基本方法将是记录从 训练有素的恒河猴额叶皮层中的单神经元 猴子在做一个简单的手臂动作。 数据他 收集与以前收集的数据将允许博士。 Kettner开发和测试锋面的数学模型 皮质功能 这项工作很重要，因为它将给我们 更好更详细地了解手臂运动 是由皮层起始产生的。

Dr. Ronald Kettner will study two basic questions: 1) how dofrontal cortical areas control rapid arm movements to a sequenceof targets in space; and 2) how are these sequences stored inshort.term memory during a delay period before movementinitiation? His basic approach will be to record from singleneurons in the frontal cortex of well.trained rhesus monkeysperforming a simple arm movement task. The data he collectsalong with previously collected data will allow Dr. Kettner todevelop and test mathematical models of frontal corticalfunction. This work is important because it will give us abetter and more detailed understanding of how arm movements aregenerated from cortical initiation.