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SUBMITTER: Glaser JI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5934453 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Glaser Joshua I JI Perich Matthew G MG Ramkumar Pavan P Miller Lee E LE Kording Konrad P KP
Nature communications 20180503 1
Our bodies and the environment constrain our movements. For example, when our arm is fully outstretched, we cannot extend it further. More generally, the distribution of possible movements is conditioned on the state of our bodies in the environment, which is constantly changing. However, little is known about how the brain represents such distributions, and uses them in movement planning. Here, we record from dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) and primary motor cortex (M1) while monkeys reach to rand ...[more]