Tohoku university school of medicine

As a result of recent studies, it has been established that multiple areas exist in the cerebral cortex that are crucially involved in controlling motor behavior. Our goal is to clarify how individual areas take part in determining what motor act to select and prepare, and how to generate spatial and temporal motor patterns. To achieve this goal, we employ physiological techniques such as analyzing the activity of single cells in motor task behavior in primates, pharmacological techniques to apply chemical substances in situ, or histological techniques.

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cerebral motor areas, prefrontal cortex, voluntary action