On the golf tee or pitcher's mound, brain dooms motion to inconsistency
...chers concluded that less than half the reason for inconsistency in movement lies in the muscles. "This is the first study to successfully record neural activity during the planning period and link it on a trial-by-trial basis to performance during those trials," Churchland says. The Stanford team decided to d......e day compared to their healthy counterparts. This inconsistency was "the most striking difference between the groups. Even with as few subjects as we had, the groups were clearly separated by the variability of these measures," Hayes noted. Differences were detectable after only four weeks of monitoring. Such d...