An overlooked brain system helps you grab a coffee — and plan your next cup
Researchers have found a system in the brain that seems to integrate control of individual muscles with a person's intentions, emotions and entire body.
The seemingly simple act of reaching for a cup of coffee requires a lot of effort from the brain.
It has to plan a trajectory to the cup, control dozens of muscles, make adjustments based on feedback from the eyes and fingers, and maintain its focus on the goal: a tasty jolt of caffeine.
And it turns out that medical textbooks may be wrong about how all this happens. The books show a model of the brain in which the motor cortex is solely controlling movement.
But scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis previously overlooked areas of the brain's
