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ArticleNeuron2019

Postural Representations of the Hand in the Primate Sensorimotor Cortex.

James M Goodman, Gregg A Tabot, Alex S Lee, Aneesha K Suresh, Alexander T Rajan, Nicholas G Hatsopoulos, Sliman Bensmaia

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Article in Neuron, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A framework for quantifying the mechanics of dexterous grasp.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Manual Dexterity in Patients with Disorder of Consciousness.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2026
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  7. Preliminary Investigation of Myoelectric Control of an Assistive Neck Exoskeleton by Individuals With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026
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  10. Predicting Motor Intent from Residual Neck Muscle Activity in Individuals with Neck Weakness from ALS.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2025
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  13. Simultaneous and Proportional Myoelectric Control of Multiple Degrees of Freedom in Individuals With Chronic Hemiparesis.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

James M GoodmanCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Gregg A TabotCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Alex S LeeCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Aneesha K SureshCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Alexander T RajanCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Nicholas G HatsopoulosCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sliman BensmaiaCommittee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: sliman@uchicago.edu.

Funding

Sensory mechanisms of manual dexterity and their application to neuroprostheticsR35NS122333 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HATSOPOULOS, NICHOLAS G · 2021 to 2024
$4.5M
Coding of Action by Motor & Premotor Cortical EnsemblesR01NS111982 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HATSOPOULOS, NICHOLAS G, ROSS, CALLUM F · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Hand proprioception and sensorimotor interplayR01NS082865 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BENSMAIA, SLIMAN · 2013 to 2017
$2.0M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS082865NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111982NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS122333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Manual dexterity requires proprioceptive feedback about the state of the hand. To date, study of the neural basis of proprioception in the cortex has focused primarily on reaching movements to the exclusion of hand-specific behaviors such as grasping. To fill this gap, we record both time-varying hand kinematics and neural activity evoked in somatosensory and motor cortices as monkeys grasp a variety of objects. We find that neurons in the somatosensory cortex, as well as in the motor cortex, preferentially track time-varying postures of multi-joint combinations spanning the entire hand. This contrasts with neural responses during reaching movements, which preferentially track time-varying movement kinematics of the arm, such as velocity and speed of the limb, rather than its time-varying postural configuration. These results suggest different representations of arm and hand movements suited to the different functional roles of these two effectors.

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AnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaHandMacaca mulattaMaleNeuronsProprioceptionPsychomotor PerformanceSensorimotor Cortexcortexgrasphandmotorneural codingproprioceptionsomatosensory

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PMID31668844
PMCPMC7172114

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