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This proof-of-concept single-subject study examined whether human motor control shows behavioral signatures consistent with MC within a temporal-preparation paradigm. One participant completed 160 trials across four entropy levels (0, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 bits) in two tasks: a low-embodiment button-pressing movement and a high-embodiment reaching movement. The reaching movement tended to show decreasing response variability (coefficient of variation, CV) with increasing temporal uncertainty, whereas the button-pressing movement tended to remain flat or slightly increase. Reaction time (RT) patterns also diverged: RTs tended to lengthen with longer foreperiods in the reaching condition but shortened in the button-pressing movement. Moreover, spatial accuracy in the reaching movement tended to improve across foreperiods. These adaptations emerged without explicit strategy instructions, may reflect sensitivity to temporal context. Taken together, these patterns appear consistent with MC-inspired accounts in which limb mechanics and modest co-contraction may filter temporal uncertainty rather than amplify it. 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