?Electric? fish help scientists understand body movements

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Scientists have struggled to understand exactly how the brain guides complex movements of human limbs from holding the newspaper steady to picking up a cup of coffee.

Johns Hopkins University robotics and neuroscience researchers found some tantalizing clues in an unlikely mode of motion: The undulations of a tiny tropical fish.

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