Do arm postures vary with the speed of reaching?

@article{Nishikawa1999DoAP,
  title={Do arm postures vary with the speed of reaching?},
  author={Kiisa C. Nishikawa and Suzanne Elanore Turner Murray and Melanie Flanders},
  journal={Journal of neurophysiology},
  year={1999},
  volume={81 5},
  pages={
          2582-6
        }
}
Do arm postures vary with the speed of reaching? For reaching movements in one plane, the hand has been observed to follow a similar path regardless of speed. Recent work on the control of more complex reaching movements raises the question of whether a similar "speed invariance" also holds for the additional degrees of freedom. Therefore we examined human arm movements involving initial and final hand locations distributed throughout the three-dimensional (3D) workspace of the arm. Despite… 
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