Typical tangential velocity profile showing the method for parsing a reaching movement.

<p>The reaching was successful when the cursor remained within the target for 1 sec (no click required). Red circles indicate velocity minima. Blue squares indicate velocity maxima. The blue triangle represents peak acceleration. The figure illustrates the durations of the reaction time (RT), movement time (MT), time to peak acceleration (*), first sub-movement (SM1), homing-in (HI), initial adjustment (IA) and current control phase (CC). The beginning of the MT is the last velocity minimum inside the previous target. The end of the first sub-movement is the first velocity minimum. The end of the MT is the first velocity minimum that is inside the target. The number of sub-movements (nSM) is the number of velocity maxima.