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Coordinated digit movements are enabled by the intricate musculature of the hand and forearm, which also imposes mechanical coupling between the digits and wrist, constraining their independent control. It remains unclear whether motor cortex inherits these constraints in its activity or encodes digit and wrist independently. To address this problem, we asked individuals with intracortical microelectrode arrays implanted in motor cortex to attempt flexion and extension of individual digits, either in isolation or in combination with attempted wrist movements. We could accurately decode which digit was moving based on cortical recordings, and channels selective for digit identity were arranged somatotopically across the recording arrays. Nevertheless, the activity during flexion or extension overlapped between digits, and movement direction of a given digit could be reliably inferred by a decoder trained on movements of other digits. 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