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1: Neirofiziologiia. 1992;24(2):186-92.Links

[Role of the frontal cortex in the organization of rapid ballistic movements of rats]

[Article in Russian]

Moroz VM, Bratus' NV, Vlasenko OV, Ioltukhovskiĭ MV, Kozlovskaia LP, Makota AS, Udod OD.

Rapid ballistic food-getting movement characteristics were studied in albino rats. After ablation of the second area of the frontal cortex contralaterally as to the preferred extremity the number of attempts increased and their duration with reorganization of the phase structure of movements decreased. The habit of food extraction was lost after bilateral ablation of the cortex. The obtained results have illustrated significance of the frontal cortex in formation and realization of moving programmes.

PMID: 1598123 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]