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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 1991, 1 I(5): 1182-l 197 Making Arm Movements within Different Parts of Space: The Premotor and Motor Cortical Representation of a Coordinate System for Reaching to Visual Targets R. Caminiti,’ P. B. Johnson,2 C. Galli,’ S. Ferraina,’ and Y. Burnod3 l lstituto di Fisiologia umana, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome Italy, *Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, and 3DBpartment de Neurosciences de la Vision, lnstitut des Neurosciences, Universite Paris VI, 9 quai St. Bernard, Paris, 75005 France The activity of 156 individual arm-related neurons was stud- the hand in space. These static positional effects were ob- ied in the premotor cortex (area 6) while monkeys made arm served in 66.5% of premotor and 91.6% of motor cortical movements of similar directions within different parts of cells. dimensional space. This study was aimed at describing In a second task, monkeys made movements from differ- the relationship between premotor cortical cell activity and ing origins to a common end point. This task was performed direction of arm movement and assessing the coordinate within 3 different parts