The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as gras** to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

It is commonly assumed that we are conscious of our movements mainly because we can
sense ourselves moving as ongoing peripheral information coming from our muscles and …

Parietal and premotor cortex regions are serious contenders for bringing motor intentions
and motor responses into awareness. We used electrical stimulation in seven patients …

Picking up a cup requires transporting the arm to the cup (transport component) and
presha** the hand appropriately to grasp the handle (grip component). Here, we used …

Stroke patients often have flexor hypertonia and finger extensor weakness, which makes it
difficult to open their affected hand for functional grasp. Because of this impairment, hand …

Evidence suggests that the CNS uses motor primitives to simplify movement control, but
whether it actually stores primitives instead of computing solutions on the fly to satisfy task …

Prehension, the capacity to reach and grasp, is the key behavior that allows humans to
change their environment. It continues to serve as a remarkable experimental test case for …

Previous studies have shown that intracortical activity can be used to operate prosthetic
devices such as an artificial limb. Previously used neuronal signals were either the activity of …

Skilled grasp is a sensorimotor process requiring the brain to extract sensory cues from the
environment to shape a motor command. Although a large body of literature has focused on …

Neural activity in motor cortex during reach and grasp movements shows modulations in a
broad range of signals from single-neuron spiking activity (SA) to various frequency bands in …