{
  "id": 14179298,
  "title": "Reaching movements in virtual reality depend on the seen avatar arm and not just the acting arm",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/reaching-movements-in-virtual-reality-depend-on-the-seen-avatar-arm",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.05.756878v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Virtual reality (VR) offers unique opportunities to study behaviour by allowing the visual environment to be manipulated in ways otherwise impossible in the real world. A central theoretical question is how body-related visual information shapes movement control. Given right-handers' greater dexterity with the right arm, perhaps even seeing a right arm vs. a left arm may engage sensorimotor…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}