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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 1990, IO(7): 2039-2058 Making Arm Movements Within Different Parts of Space: Dynamic Aspects in the Primate Motor Cortex R. Caminiti,’ P. B. Johnson,* and A. Urbanol ‘Istituto di Fisiologia umana, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” 00185 Rome, Italy, and *Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA The activity of 176 individual cells in the arm area of motor havior (Saltzman, 1979;Stein, 1982).Studiesof someforms of cortex (areas 4 and 6) was studied while monkeys made arm multiarticular motion in space,suchas reachingto an object of movements of similar direction within different parts of ex- interest, have beenaimed at uncovering patterns of invariance trapersonal space. The behavioral paradigm used was a in the underlying motor variables on the assumptionthat such 3-dimensional reaction-time task aimed at dissociating the regularitieswould have revealed the parameterscoded by the direction of movement, which remained similar across the CNS. For example, the observation that in many instancesthe work space, from the patterns of muscular activity and the handfollows a roughly straight-line or mildly curved path when angular joint excursions necessary to perform these move- moving between pairs of points in space(Gilman et al., 1976; ments.