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  • High-level cortical regions often encode motor decisions before conscious awareness.
  • This challenges traditional notions of human agency and brain-machine interface (BMI) design.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the timing of posterior parietal cortex (PPC) neural activity relative to the urge to move.
  • To re-evaluate the role of early neural activity in motor control and BMI applications.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded single-neuron activity from human PPC using microelectrode arrays.
  • Participants freely chose movement parameters and retrospectively reported their urge to move.

Main Results:

  • PPC neural activity significantly increased hundreds of milliseconds before the reported urge to move.
  • This "preconscious" activity is part of an earlier dynamic neural population response initiated upon task choice.

Conclusions:

  • PPC encodes an internal model of motor planning, transforming task objectives into behavior.
  • Early neural dynamics can drive BMI movements before conscious intention, enabling more intuitive BMI control.