Washington, May 8 (ANI): Have you ever wondered how your simple intent to perform an action, like reaching for a glass, is transformed into the coordinated symphony of muscle movements? Well, a new study has the answer for you.

The neural instructions for actions originate in the brain’s primary motor cortex. But here, the puzzle is that whether the neurons in this region encode the details of individual muscle activities or the high-level commands that govern kinetics-the direction and velocity of desired movements.

Now, Robert Ajemian and his colleagues, analyzing muscle function in monkeys, have created a mathematical model that captures the control characteristics of the motor cortex. It enabled the researchers to better sort out the “muscles-or-movement” question.