A simple model suggests that activity in primary motor cortex may encode the activity of individual muscles and not higher-order features as previously suspected.
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Scott, S. Population vectors and motor cortex: neural coding or epiphenomenon? . Nat Neurosci 3, 307–308 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/73859
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