Topic: movement control

An open question in neuroscience is how the brain controls naturally generated movements. An increasing number of studies have shown that high-dimensional neural population dynamics lie within low-dimensional manifolds, which may be integral to neural control of behavior. However, many of these studies have focused on neural activity recorded during experimentally driven movements with little variability, leaving open the question of whether low-dimensional neural manifolds persist during naturalistic movements. In this paper, we investigate neural population dynamics in naturalistic reaching