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Science 7 June 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5574, pp. 1817 - 1818
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073592
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Neurons in Action

Peter König and Paul F. M. J. Verschure

Researchers dream of being able to harness the activity of cortical neurons to control neuroprosthetic devices that drive movement. In their Perspective, König and Verschure discuss new findings (Taylor et al.) suggesting that only a small group of neurons in the motor cortex may be required in a system that uses visual feedback to fine-tune neuronal activity.

The authors are at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University/ETH Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: peterk{at}ini.phys.ethz.ch, pfmjv{at}ini.phys.ethz.ch

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