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A Compact Representation of Drawing Movements with Sequences of Parabolic Primitives 1 2 2 3 1 Felix Polyakov *, Rotem Drori , Yoram Ben-Shaul , Moshe Abeles , Tamar Flash 1 Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2 Department of Physiology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 3 Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Abstract Some studies suggest that complex arm movements in humans and monkeys may optimize several objective functions, while others claim that arm movements satisfy geometric constraints and are composed of elementary components. However, the ability to unify different constraints has remained an open question. The criterion for a maximally smooth (minimizing jerk) motion is satisfied for parabolic trajectories having constant equi-affine speed, which thus comply with the geometric constraint known as the two-thirds power law. Here we empirically test the hypothesis that parabolic segments provide a compact representation of spontaneous drawing movements. Monkey scribblings performed during a period of practice were recorded. Practiced hand paths could be approximated well by relatively long parabolic segments. Following practice, the orientations and spatial locations of the fitted parabolic segments could be drawn from only 2–4 clusters, and there was less discrepancy between the fitted parabolic segments and the executed paths. This enabled us to show that well-practiced spontaneous scribbling movements can be represented as sequences (‘‘words’’) of a small number of elementary parabolic primitives (‘‘letters’’). A movement primitive can be defined as a movement entity that cannot