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SUBMITTER: Kunimatsu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050043 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kunimatsu Jun J Suzuki Tomoki W TW Ohmae Shogo S Tanaka Masaki M
eLife 20180702
The ability to flexibly adjust movement timing is important for everyday life. Although the basal ganglia and cerebellum have been implicated in monitoring of supra- and sub-second intervals, respectively, the underlying neuronal mechanism remains unclear. Here, we show that in monkeys trained to generate a self-initiated saccade at instructed timing following a visual cue, neurons in the caudate nucleus kept track of passage of time throughout the delay period, while those in the cerebellar den ...[more]