Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a way to measure electrical activity of the brain but the poor spatial resolution limits us to record activity of asingle neuron. Local Field Potential (LFP) is a technique that by using electrode arrays can record in depth. Using LFPs we can decode each neuron‘s behaviour and see what is it that each neuron is responsive to. Here we demonstrated that LFPs recorded from Primary Motor and Dorsal-Ventral Pre-Motor Cortices will have a significant low frequency component on the onset of a hand movement of a monkey and an averaged increased firing rate at this onset. We also show that some neurons are responsible for encoding different types of kinematics.
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