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Nature Neuroscience 6, 1253–1254 (1 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/nn1158

Inference of hand movements from local field potentials in monkey motor cortex

Carsten Mehring , J|[ouml]|rn Rickert , Eilon Vaadia , Simone Cardoso de Oliveira , Ad Aertsen & Stefan Rotter

The spiking of neuronal populations in motor cortex provides accurate information about movement parameters. Here we show that hand movement target and velocity can be inferred from multiple local field potentials (LFPs) in single trials approximately as efficiently as from multiple single-unit activity (SUA) recorded from the same electrodes.