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“Motor planning” refers to the cognitive operations that are antecedent to the execution of a voluntary, goal-directed motor act or sequence.
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As the term implies, motor planningrefers to the mental operations that precede the initiation of a voluntary motor act. Imagine, for example, the simple act of reaching to pick up a glass of wine while dining at a restaurant. If you are like most people, you have just envisioned yourself making a deliberate reach to pick up the glass, presumably for the eventual purpose of taking a sip. Now, instead imagine that this same glass of wine is teetering due to an inadvertent bump of the table by a passing waiter. It is readily apparent that your reaching movement in this circumstance, though requiring the same basic excursion, would be substantively different in both its...
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Stanford, T.R. (2015). Decision-Making, Motor Planning. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_313
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