But, interestingly, the robot performed the right steps 64percentt of the time even when the commands changed and the entire scene was reorganized.
Thus, the mere preparation of action has a structuring effect on somatosensory perception, even when the motor command is not actually executed.
"Should judges sometimes recuse themselves even when the clear commands of our prior due process law do not require it?" he asked.
And we remain calm and patient, even when the satnav commands you to do a U-turn on a dual carriageway, or the IT system is being remarkably uncooperative, or finding a hot desk is proving rather difficult.
Philip of France also turned a deaf ear to papal commands, even when the pope threatened excommunication and interdict in December 1073 and a year later announced that he would do everything in his power to depose Philip.
But for two-thirds of the play Flora is amusing if abrasive company, and Ms. Dukakis invests her with a bullying bravado that commands attention even when the play's static nature and more lurid excesses threaten to derail it.
It is not easy to turn one's thoughts from the horror of recent calamity and really enjoy nature, yet the peaceful beauty of the rapidly unfolded and developed foliage commands attention even when the heart is heavy; seldom has summer come so swiftly.
The home nation's goalkeeper is just 21 and stands only slightly taller than 6ft, yet he was the stand-out goalkeeper here and a figure who commanded attention even when the freedom with which his outfield team-mates sometimes played was a more obvious draw.
As once disgraced journalist and 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, she's all shoulder-padded swagger masking burnt, jangling nerves; she commands emotional involvement even when the plot-fuelling scandal, about questionably unearthed documents throwing George W Bush's military record into question, is a decade past its boiling point.
Those neural signatures became the "commands" that directed the virtual arms to move, even when the monkeys' arms were gently immobilized at their sides.
