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Two early components of object manipulation are shaping the hand appropriately for functional interaction and transporting the arm with appropriate force and spatial precision to the target object. Three experiments addressed whether people plan these two components before the onset of reaching and if so, how the plans are coordinated. Subjects reached for and contacted a series of objects with...