Reaching for rewards: how spatial targets are learned
From reaching to pick up a cup of coffee to performing the latest TikTok dance move, we know the human brain is capable of refining movements into precise skills. In our first Emerging Neuroscientists Seminar Series (ENSS) talk of 2023/24, Dr Alice Mosberger, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, described a behavioural task she developed to dissect the sensorimotor areas that control different aspects of skilled movements. In this Q&A, she shares more.