[Reaction of striatal (putamen) neurons on motor and non-motor fragments of behaviour in monkeys].

Each putamen neuron responded to several fragments of a behavioural programme, the pattern of such connections being not constant. The response could disappear in a different variant of the behavioural programme while a response to another fragment could occur. Therefore additional variants of the programme were followed by an increase in number of functional modality of a neuron. This was more obvious in motor fragments of the programme. The data obtained suggest that the putamen neurons have no particular specifics, and so involvement of its units in sensory-cognitive processes seem to be more stable than in organisation of movements.