Grip formation as an emergent property. Response To commentaries on "A new view on grasping"

We begin our response by discussing the commentators' arguments concerning our proposal to abandon the classical distinction between transport and grip. In the second section, we argue that the minimum-jerk model is not fundamental to our approach, but very convenient. In the third section, we discuss how the experimental results that the commentators mention fit into our new approach. We conclude that the predictive capacity of our model, combined with its simplicity, makes it very useful for understanding grasping.