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Editorial
. 2024 Sep 2:13:e101739.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.101739.

Reaching into the future

Raeed H Chowdhury  1
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Editorial

Reaching into the future

Raeed H Chowdhury. Elife. .

Abstract

When carrying out a sequence of movements, humans can plan several steps in advance to make the movement smooth.

Keywords: eye movements; human; motor planning; neuroscience; reaching; sequential movement; sequential reaching.

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Conflict of interest statement

RC No competing interests declared

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Planning a sequence of movements.
(A) A schematic representation of the virtual reality game Beat Saber, during which the player must use a sword (left) to slash a stream of blocks (right) that are coming towards them – similar to the task Kashefi et al. used in their study. Based on results from Kashefi et al., knowing about future blocks influences planned movements (dashed line) and helps players to slash the boxes as they arrive. (B) A natural follow-up study would be to repeat the experiment in monkeys and use electrodes (triangles) to measure the spiking neural activity of their motor cortex (represented as a stream of vertical lines from each electrode) as they plan ahead.
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