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Neural prosthetics: understanding reach planning
To enable next-generation neural prostheses, Stanford researchers set out to understand how movement planning relates to movement execution. This video shows that motor planning is a beneficial, but not strictly necessary, step of movement generation.
Eric Trautmann, a graduate student from the Shenoy Lab at Stanford University, entered this video in a contest to promote public literacy in science. It explains key concepts embodied in a scientific paper co-authored by Stanford doctoral student Katherine Cora Ames — a mathematical analysis of the brain activity of monkeys as they make anticipated and unanticipated reaching motions. The video won an award from the National Science Foundation.
