Raeed H. Chowdhury

Sep 2, 2024 | elifesciences.org | Raeed H. Chowdhury

Recently a friend introduced me to Beat Saber, a virtual reality game that involves using virtual swords to rhythmically slash through colored blocks that come streaming towards the player. After twenty minutes of flailing my arms around with minimal success, I gave up. My friend then passed the headset to his eight-month-pregnant wife who, after being helped off the couch, switched the difficulty to ‘expert’ and within seconds blew past my score with unbelievable grace and efficiency.

Jan 28, 2024 | nature.com | Raeed H. Chowdhury |Aaron P. Batista |Byron M. Yu

AbstractThe most prominent characteristic of motor cortex is its activation during movement execution, but it is also active when we simply imagine movements in the absence of actual motor output. Despite decades of behavioural and imaging studies, it is unknown how the specific activity patterns and temporal dynamics in motor cortex during covert motor imagery relate to those during motor execution.