Humphrey D R, Schmidt E M, Thompson W D
Science. 1970 Nov 13;170(3959):758-62. doi: 10.1126/science.170.3959.758.
Recordings have been obtained simultaneously from several, individually selected neurons in the motor cortex of unanesthetized monkey as the animal performed simple arm movements. With the use of comparatively simple quantitative procedures, the activity of small sets of cells was found to be adequate for rather accurate real-time prediction of the time course of various response measurements. In addition, the results suggest that hypotheses concerning the response variables "controlled" by cortical motor systems may well depend upon whether or not the temporal relations between simultaneously active neurons are taken into account.
在未麻醉的猴子进行简单手臂运动时，同时从其运动皮层中几个单独挑选的神经元记录了活动情况。通过使用相对简单的定量程序，发现少量细胞的活动足以对各种反应测量的时间进程进行相当准确的实时预测。此外，结果表明，关于由皮层运动系统“控制”的反应变量的假设很可能取决于是否考虑了同时活跃的神经元之间的时间关系。
