Variation of the Classic Center-Out Reaching Task Designed to Separate Movement Parameters (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Variation of the Classic Center-Out Reaching Task Designed to Separate Movement Parameters

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In the classic center-out reaching task, a monkey reaches from a central location to targets on a circle surrounding the starting position. This task does not allow the neural encoding for hand position to be separated from the neural encoding for hand velocity. If the starting position varies, however, as in the task shown here, hand position and initial hand velocity can be disambiguated.

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