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Neuroscientific study of goal-directed behavior

Movements are more than just reflexive responses to changes in the environment. Goal-directed behavior is the result of planning and decision-making, and it is continuously altered through adaptation and associative learning. In the Sensorimotor Group, we study the cortical neural mechanisms behind the planning and selection of goal-directed actions. What information about future actions is contained in neural activity, in which frontoparietal, sensorimotor brain areas is this information found, and when do movement planning and selection occur?