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Future movement plans interact in sequential arm movements.
Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- The effects of haloperidol on motor vigour and movement fusion during sequential reaching.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Musical training increases anticipatory responding and predictive control in sequence learning.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Integration of Memory and Sensory Information in Skilled Sequence Production.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Behavioral evidence for the hierarchical execution of sequential movements.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- No strategic interactions between sequential grasping actions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Competition between Tool and Hand Motion Impairs Movement Planning in Limb Apraxia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Motor Sequence Learning Involves Better Prediction of the Next Action and Optimization of Movement Trajectories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Motor imagery enhances performance beyond the imagined action.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Cortical Areas for Planning Sequences before and during Movement.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Reaching into the future.eLife · 2024Article
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Abstract
Real-world actions often comprise a series of movements that cannot be entirely planned before initiation. When these actions are executed rapidly, the planning of multiple future movements needs to occur simultaneously with the ongoing action. How the brain solves this task remains unknown. Here, we address this question with a new sequential arm reaching paradigm that manipulates how many future reaches are available for planning while controlling execution of the ongoing reach. We show that participants plan at least two future reaches simultaneously with an ongoing reach. Further, the planning processes of the two future reaches are not independent of one another. Evidence that the planning processes interact is twofold. First, correcting for a visual perturbation of the ongoing reach target is slower when more future reaches are planned. Second, the curvature of the current reach is modified based on the next reach only when their planning processes temporally overlap. These interactions between future planning processes may enable smooth production of sequential actions by linking individual segments of a long sequence at the level of motor planning.
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