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Vision to action: new insights from a flip of the wrist

Interactions between the ventral premotor area (PMv) and primary motor cortex may contribute to a sensorimotor transformation between intrinsic and extrinsic coordinates.

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Figure 1: An upward movement of the hand is produced by wrist extension when the forearm is pronated (left), by radial deviation when the forearm is held in a neutral position (middle) and by wrist flexion when the forearm is supinated (right).

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Scott, S. Vision to action: new insights from a flip of the wrist. Nat Neurosci 4, 969–970 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1001-969

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